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Oedipus Rex
Opera-oratorio in two acts after SOPHOCLES
Music by Stravinsky
The staging of this work at
Berlin's Kroll Oper in 1928, wasamong the era's most influential productions.
Narrator JOHN WESTBROOK
Oedipus ....GEORGE SHIRLEY (tenor)
Jocasta SHIRLEY VERRETT (SOpranO)
Creon DONALDGRAMM(bass) Tiresias......CHESTER WATSON (bass) Messenger
JOHN REARDON (baritone)
Shepherd ..LORENDRiscoLL(tenor) CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA OF THE
OPERA SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON DC/ THE COMPOSER: record

Contributors

Unknown:
Oedipus Rex
Narrator:
John Westbrook
Tenor:
George Shirley
Soprano:
Jocasta Shirley Verrett
Bass:
Chester Watson
Baritone:
John Reardon
Source: Radio Times

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