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This concert is part of the following series:
Autumn-Winter 2008/09

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Esa-Pekka Salonen has chosen to open his first season as Principal Conductor and Artistic Advisor with a performance of Stravinsky’s extraordinary neo-classical opera-oratorio based on Sophocles’s most famous tragedy, Oedipus the King. Stravinsky chose to juxtapose a colossal, powerful musical score against a dramatic background that is stark and ritualistic, with a Narrator providing a spoken commentary as inexorable Fate pursues the King
of Thebes and his wife Jocasta towards the play’s shocking conclusion.

‘O, this lofty all-discerning Oedipus: He is in the snare. He alone does not know it. And then the truth strikes him. He falls. He falls headlong.’
Narrator, Oedipus Rex (ee cummings translation)

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This evening's concert is supported by The Meyer Foundation.

Tickets: £45  £38  £29  £23  £18  £14  £11  £8

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