Musical

Oedipus

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Now playing at the James Earl Jones Theatre, **Oedipus** frames Sophocles’ tragedy as a through-sung music drama, setting the full text in Friedrich Hölderlin’s German translation. Composer **Carl Orff** treats language as the engine of the score, aligning the work with the tradition of text-driven opera. Premiered in **Stuttgart in 1959**, its arrival in New York reads less as repertory comfort and more as a rare encounter with postwar European theater music. It matters for how it makes fate feel procedural, almost forensic, as the truth tightens.