![]() ![]() She is unaware that her real child, who died at birth, has been replaced by Œdipus, whom the Shepherd did not have the courage to kill. He questions the king and queen about his true identity. Œdipus has just returned from Delphi, where the oracle has foretold his terrible fate. Twenty years later in Corinth, in the palace of King Polybus and Queen Merope. ![]() Horrified by the confirmation of the omen, Laius entrusts his child to a shepherd and asks him to kill him on the mountainside. The punishment of the gods is without appeal: the child will be murder his father and marry his mother. He blames Laius for not having listened to Apollo, who had ordered him not to have offspring. The blind old soothsayer, Tiresias, interrupts the festivities. In the royal palace, the people of Thebes are celebrating the birth of Œdipus, the son of King Laius and Queen Jocasta. Laius returns to the throne of Thebes, makes Jocasta his wife and, in making her pregnant, knowingly contravenes the oracle pronounced against him by Apollo for having raped a child and precipitated his death. The archer god forbids Laius to bring a child into the world without the child killing his father and committing adultery with his mother. A grief-crazed Pelops calls down the curse of Apollo upon Laius. The child, overcome with shame, hangs himself. One morning, Laius, responsible for teaching him to drive a chariot, rapes Chrysippus. Taking sanctuary with King Pelops when chased out of Thebes by tyrants who have usurped his throne, Laius, still a young man, falls in love with Chrysippus, his host’s son. ![]() ![]() Prologue (Addition of Wadji Mouawad to the original libretto by Wajdi Mouawad. ![]()
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