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...Infernal Machine (adapted by Albert Bermel from the French of Jean Cocteau) is Oedipus Rex revised and enlarged. The Cocteau version, which is 24 years old, does some clever satiric tale twisting, makes the story turn a psychological handspring or two, tosses in talk of music and dancing, and includes scene after scene that Sophocles did without. It uses a legitimate method of getting out of a classical rut and taking a fresh modern slant. The result is interesting without being successful...
...dimmed the Elizabethan magnificence of the great King James Bible passages, and James Mason brings sonority and good sense to his declamation of Ecclesiastes (Caedmon), making the nameless narrator sound as contemporary as an existentialist in Paris, as ancient as a Pharisee. The sound track of the movie Oedipus Rex (Caedmon, 2 LPs), starring Douglas Campbell and Canada's Shakespearean Festival Players, transports listeners inside the towering walls of seven-gated Thebes for the bloody working out of man's greatest tragedy. Caedmon's The Red Badge of Courage fills the mind with battle flags, drum beats...
Gervasi has also danced with the Rome Ballet Opera, and has dubbed several Italian films in English. Segal's most recent role was that of Creon in Harvard's presentation of "Oedipus of Colonus...
...unleashed a cacophony of sound that set its first Paris audience to pummeling one another with fists and canes. But within a mere ten years all three works were becoming accepted in the contemporary musical language, and Stravinsky boldly moved on to a new, dry, precisely turned style-Pulcinella, Oedipus Rex, Apollon Musagetes-that had little relation to the earlier, gaudily splashed Russian effects...
Female Lead: Edith Iselin, as Young Wife in Schnitzler's "Reigen" (HDC); Lisa Rosenfarb, as Jocasta in Sophocles' "Oedipus Rex" (Eliot); Lisa Rosenfarb, as Gertrude in Shakespeare's "Hamlet...