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The Hamburg State Opera production of OEDIPUS REX'
Opera-oratorio after Sophocles by Igor Stravinsky and Jean Cocteau
Hamburg State Opera Chorus
(Chorus-Master, Giinter Hertel )
Hamburg Philharmonic Orchestra
CONDUCTOR, LEOPOLD LUDWIG Producer, Gunther Rennert
Scene: Before the King's palace at Thebes
Joan CMssell writes on page 4
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Opera bouffe after Pushkin
Text by Boris Kochno
German translation by A. Elukhen
Music by Stravinsky
Hamburg Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor, LEOPOLD LUDWIO Producer, Gunther Rennert
Scene: In the living room of a middle-class Russian family
From the King's Theatre, Edinburgh

Contributors

Unknown:
Igor Stravinsky
Unknown:
Jean Cocteau
Chorus-Master:
Giinter Hertel
Conductor:
Leopold Ludwig
Producer:
Gunther Rennert
Unknown:
Boris Kochno
Translation By:
A. Elukhen
Conductor:
Leopold Ludwio
Producer:
Gunther Rennert
Oedipus King of Thebes:
Helmut Melchert
Jocasta his wife:
Maria von Ilosvay
Creon, Jocasta's brother:
James Pease
Tiresias a soothsayer:
Arnold van Mill
The Shepherd:
Fritz Lehnert
The Messenger:
Caspar Brocheler
Speaker:
Gerard Flevin
Paracha:
Melitta Muszely
The Neighbour:
Margarete Ast
The Mother:
Gisela Litz
The Hussar:
Jurgen Forster

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