Sean Panikkar, J’Nai Bridges, Sir Willard White Headline San Francisco Symphony’s ‘Oedipus Rex’

By David Salazar

The San Francisco Symphony is set to present Stravinsky’s “Oedipus Rex” and “Symphony of Psalms” on June 10-12, 2022.

The showcase will be conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen and staged by Peter Sellars, in the first of a four-year collaboration during which the director will mount four large-scale productions between 2022-25.

“This particular combination of two major Stravinsky pieces premiered in LA back in 2009,” said Salonen of the program. “It was actually my farewell concert after 17 years with the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Peter Sellars came up with this idea that there’s this drama, and it ends with ascension. It ends with future. And in many ways, I thought that was very, very fitting. So, we did this production then, and since then it has traveled quite a bit.”

The opera will star Sean Panikkar, J’Nai Bridges, Sir Willard White, Jose Simerilla Romero, actor Breezy Leigh, and dancer Laurel Jenkins.

 

 

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