PERFORMERS:
Soloist: Denis Matsuev (piano)
Oedipus: Alexander Mikhailov
Jocasta: Ekaterina Semenchuk
Сreon: Yevgeny Nikitin
Tiresias: Mikhail Petrenko
Shepherd: Andrei Popov
The Narrator (performed in Russian): Sergei Migitsko
The Mariinsky Chorus and Orchestra
Conductor: Valery Gergiev
PROGRAMME:
Igor Stravinsky
Capriccio for Piano and Orchestra
Oedipus Rex
(concert performance of opera)
Music by Igor Stravinsky
Libretto (in French) by Jean Cocteau, after the play Oedipus Rex by Sophocles
Latin sections translated by Jean Danielou
Musical Preparation: Oxana Klevtsova
Chorus Master: Konstantin Rylov