For his first opera, Frank McGuinness has turned Sophocles's Oedipus trilogy into a single piece. He explains how his own family and politics helped him tap into Thebans' themes of vengeance and murderI'm a relative newcomer to opera.Seeing films some years ago of Carmen and Don Giovanni whetted my appetite for this music because I could read its meaning on the screen, and since then I have developed a passionate int…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:00PM on April 30, 2014