OEDIPUS REX Florence 2022 Daniele Gatti, AJ Glueckert, Ekaterina Semenchuck, Alex Esposito

Information on the Performance

• Work Title: Oedipus Rex  
• Composer: Stravinsky Igor  
• Libretto: Jean Cocteau, Igor Stravinsky based on Sophokles  
• Venue & Opera Company: Sala Zubin Mehta, Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Florence, Italy  
• Recorded: June 30, 2022
• Type: Concert Live
• Singers: AJ Glueckert, Ekaterina Semenchuck, Alex Esposito, Adolfo Corrado, Luca Bernard, Sebastian Geyer, Massimo Popolizio
• Conductor: Daniele Gatti  
• Orchestra: Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino  
• Chorus: Chorus del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino  
• Chorus Master: Lorenzo Fratini  
• Stage Director:   
• Costume Designer:   

Information about the Recording

• Published by: Dynamic  
• Date Published: 2023  
• Format: DVD & BD
• Quality Video: 5 Audio:5
• Subtitles: yessubs, ensubs, desubs, frsubs, itsubs, jpsubs, cnsubs, othersubs  
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE

PIZZETTI Three Orchestral Preludes
STRAVINSKY Oedipus Rex

Both Pizzetti and Stravinsky were drawn to the subject of Oedipus Rex, but in very different contexts. The 24-year-old Pizzetti was commissioned to write Three Orchestral Preludes for use in a theatrical production. He wrote with an austere sense of orchestral colour, devoid of impressionism that favours the vaguely archaic, with modal inflections. Stravinsky’s opera-oratorio was written in his neo-Classical style, with a central role for narrator. In a stark, stylised and formal setting, the use of Latin, and Stravinsky’s instruction for the leading characters to wear masks, add timeless, impersonal elements to a work that culminates in catharsis