Œdipe roi (1881)

Original id: 
240
Start date: 
9 August 1881
Degree of relationship to ancient play: 
Translation
Production notes: 
Translation and adaptation by Jules Lacroix, music by Edmond Membrée. With Mounet-Sully as Oedipe, Henri Maubant as Tiresias and Emilie Lerou as Jocaste. This production featured a chorus of four. The Paris performances were followed by an extensive tour and revivals throughout Europe. See production ID 9412 for the 1885-85 performance seen by Freud. Drawings and plates are available on Gallica, retrieved from http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b84055344 as well as a sketch of the painted backdrop retrieved from http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b90067685 (19/04/2012). About the music composed by Edmond Membrée for the choral odes and its reception, see Mention, Léon. Edmond Membrée, compositeur valenciennois. 1908 pp.17-26 available online http://archive.org/stream/edmondmembre1800ment#page/18/mode/2up (19/04/2012).
Media of production: 
Stage-play
Languages: 
French
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Œdipe roi (1881), accessed at http://www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk/productions/production/240 <19 April 2024>