• 3333/4331/timp.3perc/pf/str
  • choir
  • 6 singing parts, speaker
  • 1 hr
  • Rachel Trickett after Sophocles
  • English

Programme Note

SYNOPSIS

The tragedy of Oedipus’ daughter Antigone, who defies King Creon of Thebes’ command by performing rites of burial for her dishonoured brother Polynices. Creon sentences her to burial alive despite the pleas of his son Haemon who is married to Antigone. Rather than live without her, Haemon chooses to die with his wife. Tiresias, the blind prophet, tells the king of his fateful error and the grief-stricken Creon hurries, in vain, to the cave to prevent the deaths.