Author: SCI Members Mailing List
Subject: From Martin Halpern: chamber opera production
*The Death of Oedipus, a chamber opera by Martin Halpern, will be given a fully staged production at the Loft Theatre in the Davenport Theatre complex, 354 West 45th Street in Manhattan, on October 25, 26 and 27 at 8 PM.* *Freely based on Sophocles’ last play, Oedipus at Colonus, the opera dramatizes the final redemption of the former king of Thebes who many years earlier had unknowingly killed his father and married his mother, and on learning this had put out his eyes in punishment. Since then, tended to by his daughter Antigone, he has wandered all over Greece in search of a place [...]
Subject: From Martin Halpern: chamber opera production
*The Death of Oedipus, a chamber opera by Martin Halpern, will be given a fully staged production at the Loft Theatre in the Davenport Theatre complex, 354 West 45th Street in Manhattan, on October 25, 26 and 27 at 8 PM.* *Freely based on Sophocles’ last play, Oedipus at Colonus, the opera dramatizes the final redemption of the former king of Thebes who many years earlier had unknowingly killed his father and married his mother, and on learning this had put out his eyes in punishment. Since then, tended to by his daughter Antigone, he has wandered all over Greece in search of a place [...]