“Beware of oracles,” sings a character in Stravinsky’s “Oedipus Rex.” The warnings and revelations of Greek tragedy register with considerable impact in Stravinsky’s 1927 opera-oratorio, which sets ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Music Review By Vivien Schweitzer Stravinsky, who scorned emotions in art and said — among his many, sometimes contradictory pronouncements — that ...

The classic Greek tragedy "Oedipus rex" by Sophocles, perhaps the earliest and most dramatic example of the "big reveal" in theater, formed the basis of an opera-oratorio written by Igor Stravinsky in ...

Conducted by Music Director James Conlon and starring tenor Russell Thomas, the company's Artist in Residence, the concert performance marks LA Opera's first public, in-person performance-and the ...

Igor Stravinsky’s “Oedipus Rex,” which forms the centerpiece of Michael Tilson Thomas’ absorbing all-Stravinsky program with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra this weekend at Orchestra Hall, stands alone ...

But there was the piece on Sunday afternoon, Oct. 9, forming an improbably gripping and theatrical climax to the weekend-long Berkeley residency of London’s Philharmonia Orchestra and its brilliant ...