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The Arts Intel Report

Œdipe, by George Enescu

Aug 11–24, 2019
Hofstallgasse 1, 5020 Salzburg, Austria

The conductor Ingo Metzmacher and the theater artist Achim Freyer—trailblazers and visionaries both—join forces on behalf of Enescu’s much-lauded, seldom-seen opera Œdipe. Enescu’s take on the king with the complex was a long time coming. He sketched out the music in 1910, finished the orchestration in 1931, and the premiere took place in Paris in 1936. —M.G.