The choreographer has paired the tragedies of Oedipus Rex and Antigone in a monumental double bill, Jocasta's Line, which refuses to spoon-feed audiences When Stravinsky composed Oedipus Rex in 1927, Jean Cocteau wrote a French libretto based on Sophocles's tragedy, which was then translated into Latin, a language Stravinsky called "not dead but turned to stone". It was to be mere syllables to sing notes to, immune t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:24PM on September 19, 2025