Trailer Oedipus Rex / Antigone [Mart van Berckel & Nanine Linning] | Dutch National Opera & Ballet

Ambitious works for chorus, vocal soloists and dancers

This double bill — Stravinsky’s Oedipus Rex (1927) and Samy Moussa’s Antigone (2020) — centres on the tragic collision between the political and the personal. In this new production, stage director Mart van Berckel and director-choreographer Nanine Linning bring together the worlds of classical tragedy and of twentieth- and twenty-first-century music in a unique theatrical experience.

PERFORMANCE INFORMATION

Musical direction – Erik Nielsen
Stage direction of Oedipus Rex – Mart van Berckel
Stage direction and choreography of Antigone – Nanine Linning
Lighting design – Cor van den Brink
Dramaturgy – Luc Joosten, Laura Roling

Set and costume design – With the special permission of Vicki Mortimer, elements of the original design for Wayne McGregror’s production of Jocasta’s Line are used

Oedipus Rex
Opera-oratorio
Sung in Latin

Libretto Jean Cocteau, based on Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex
Composition Igor Stravinsky

Oedipus – Sean Panikkar
Jocasta – Dame Sarah Connolly
Creon – Bastiaan Everink
Tiresias – Rafał Siwek
Le Berger – Linard Vrielink
Le Messager – Frederik Bergman
Speaker – Nazmiye Oral

Antigone
Oratorio
Sung in Ancient Greek, composed for women’s chorus and orchestra

Composition – Samy Moussa

Antigone – Qian Liu / Nicola Jones
Polynices – Dingkai Bai / Rémy Catalan
Eteocles – Fabio Rinieri / Sven de Wilde
Eurydice – Sandra Quintyn / Antonina Tchirpanlieva
Haemon – Sander Baaij / Gabriel Rajah
Creon – Bastiaan Everink
Tiresias – Rafał Siwek

Libretto
Samy Moussa in collaboration with Niall Potter; based on texts by Aeschylus, Apollodorus, Empedocles, Euripides, Philostratus the Elder and Sophocles

Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra

Chorus of Dutch National Opera
Chorus master – Edward Ananian-Cooper

Composition commission and co-production with Norwegian National Opera & Ballet (Oslo).
Antigone: Co-commission with Festival de Lanaudière (Canada).

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