On Le Sacre, Oedipus Rex, and Igor Stravinsky
This week, I had the students who are studying Ancient Greek and Roman Mythology and Biblical Narrative check out a couple of works by Igor Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring (the ballet) Oedipus Rex (the opera-oratorio) For Oedipus, we watched the one-hour DVD of the Seiji Ozawa production (the one with Jessye Norman) in class; […]