Organization

Zanger

Tenor

William Burden

Oedipe

Mezzo-soprano

Rehanna Thelwell

Jocaste

Bass-baritone

Mark S. Doss

Créon

Bass

Jonathan Lemalu

Tirésias

Spoken

Charlotte Blake Alston

Le narrateur

Dirigent

Corrado Rovaris

Ethan Burck

Le Berger

Soprano

Tiffany Townsend

Koor meester

Elizabeth Braden

Le messager

Opera Philadelphia

Others

Opera Philadelphia Chorus

Orchestra

Opera Philadelphia Orchestra

Latijn

Engels

Oedipus Rex + Lilacs

Philadelphia

Verenigde Staten

Verizon Hall

Oedipus Rex + Lilacs: Oedipus rex (+1 More)

Public

Oedipus Rex

Lilacs

Approved

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Enter Thebes…a city in crisis whose denizens are looking to one man for salvation: Oedipus Rex. But how can this man save anything when he’s unknowingly cursed by the gods? Can he escape his dark fate?

The ancient Greek tragedy of the man who killed his father and married his mother is brought into the 20th century with a searing score by Igor Stravinsky in the opera-oratorio, Oedipus Rex. Jack Mulroney Music Director Corrado Rovaris leads the Opera Philadelphia Orchestra and Chorus, with soloists William Burden, Rehanna Thelwell, and Mark S. Doss.

Before watching Oedipus fall, reflect on the loss of other guiding stars with Lilacs, George Walker’s Pulitzer Prize-winning meditation on grief and remembrance. This rarely-performed piece is a setting of Whitman’s poem, “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d,” written after Lincoln’s assassination. In Lilacs, Walker commemorates famed Black tenor Roland Hayes. Rising soprano Tiffany Townsend performs as the soloist.

English

Voorstellingscredits (Cast & Productieteam )

Cast

Productieteam

Ensemble