Public Final Performance
Free admission
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In cooperation with the Vienna Philharmonic and with the support of the Salzburg Foundation of the American Austrian Foundation (AAF) and Solway Investment Group

Afraid that a terrible prophecy will come to pass, King Laius of Thebes disowns his newborn son Oedipus. But even though the child doesn’t grow up with his parents, there is no way to avoid the tragedy from taking its course. Oedipus kills the king without knowing that it is his biological father, saves Thebes from peril, becomes a ruler in his own right and unknowingly marries his mother, the queen. However, this is far from the end of the story. The ancient myth is breathtakingly set to music in George Enescu’s opera Œdipe. The questions this story raises are as thought-provoking to people today as they were thousands of years ago: who am I? Where do I come from? Are we controlled by destiny or do our lives lie in our own hands?