Winning the prize for first post-pandemic indoor stage performance, L.A. Opera will present composer Igor Stravinsky’s Oedipus Rex for a single matinee June 6 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion…
“It’s all deeply unfair, and very unfair of Freud,” Fry says of the hapless king and the psychological complex named for him. “The one person who didn’t have an Oedipus complex was Oedipus. He went as far away as he could to avoid it! And as soon as he discovered he had done it, he stabbed himself in the eyes!”
L.A. Opera artist-in-residence tenor Russell Thomas will sing the lead, with mezzo-soprano J’Nai Bridges as Jocasta, bass John Relyea as Creon and the Messenger, bass Morris Robinson as Tiresias and tenor Robert Stahley as the Shepherd in a production featuring projected animation by Emmy-winning performance collective Manual Cinema, whose shadow-puppet work will be featured in Universal’s upcoming filmFor the performance, the company has set up strict public-health protocols.
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