Ismene has arrived to tell her father about his sons that are in the midst of a battle over the throne. Oedipus, blinded by his own hands, has been walking the land with his daughter, Antigone.

Without overture or curtain, the opera opened with Oedipus singing expository lines ... by the line “Inducuntur Oedipodis liberi Antigone et Ismene.” According to some critics, Orff devotes ...

This version struggles to sustain its dramatic tension, its detached ideas never quite forming a cohesive whole.

Robert Icke's new version of "Oedipus", starring Mark Strong ... where King Creon is Chris, his niece Antigone is Annie, and ...

Theseus has returned with Antigone and Ismene. Oedipus is overjoyed and speaks with his daughters that he is overjoyed at their return. Oedipus then realizes that Theseus has been standing there ...