"Spectateurs, vous allez entendre une version latine d'Oedipe Roi ......"

Igor Stravinsky conducts his own Oedipus rex at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris in 1952, with Jean Cocteau (who directed the production) ranting away at a re-vamped version of his own narratrion, the great Léopold Simoneau as Oedipus, and Eugenia Zareska as Jocasta.

Oedipus rex was first performed in Paris #OTD in 1927.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLnbXWNvKPw

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