Listen to Oedipus Rex, Act I: "Dicere non possum, dicere non licet" (Tirésias, Œdipe) by Alastair Miles, Franz Welser-Möst, London Philharmonic Orchestra & Anthony Rolfe Johnson

Oedipus Rex, Act I: "Dicere non possum, dicere non licet" (Tirésias, Œdipe)

Alastair Miles, Franz Welser-Möst, London Philharmonic Orchestra & Anthony Rolfe Johnson

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AUSFÜHRENDE KÜNSTLER:INNEN

Alastair Miles

Stimme und Gesang

John Mark Ainsley

John Mark Ainsley

Stimme und Gesang

Franz Welser-Möst

Franz Welser-Möst

Dirigent:in

London Philharmonic Orchestra

London Philharmonic Orchestra

Orchester

Peter Coleman-Wright

Peter Coleman-Wright

Bassbariton

Anthony Rolfe Johnson

Anthony Rolfe Johnson

Tenor

Marjana Lipovšek

Marjana Lipovšek

Mezzosopran

Sir John Tomlinson

Sir John Tomlinson

Stimme und Gesang

Lambert Wilson

Erzähler:in

KOMPOSITION UND LIEDTEXT

Igor Strawinsky

Igor Strawinsky

Komponist:in

Jean Cocteau

Texte

Jean Danielou

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