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Oedipus Rex

BBC Radio 3
on BBC Radio 3

An opera-oratorio after Sophocles
Words by JEAN COCTEAU
Latin version by JEAN DANIELOU Music by STRAVINSKY Cast:
BBC MEN'S CHORUS BBC CHORAL SOCIETY (men's voices)
BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader BELA DEKANY conductor COLIN DAVIS
(From a public concert at the Royal Festival Hall)
The action takes place in Thebes in mythological times. (Donald Mclntyre broadcasts by permission of the General Administrator, Royal Opera House Covent Garden; Clifford Grant by permission of Sadler's Wells Opera Company)

Contributors

Unknown:
Jean Cocteau
Unknown:
Jean Danielou
Leader:
Bela Dekany
Conductor:
Colin Davis
Unknown:
Donald McLntyre
Unknown:
Clifford Grant
Source: Radio Times

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