Oedipus Rex to video and TV. In 1967 Pier Paolo Pasolini directed "Edipo Re", a modern interpretation of the play. Toshio Matsumoto's 1969 film, "Funeral Parade of Roses", is a loose adaptation of the play and an important work of the Japanese New Wave. In Colombia, writer Gabriel García Márquez adapted the story in "Edipo Alcalde", bringing it to the real Colombian situation. Composer Igor Stravinsky wrote an opera/oratorio version of Oedipus rex (opera), premiered in 1927 by the Théâtre Sarah Bernhardt, Paris. It is scored for orchestra, speaker, soloists, and male chorus. The libretto, based on Sophocles's tragedy, was written by
Oedipus Rex of the Delphic Oracle. He visits Delphi to find out who his real parents are and assumes that the Oracle refuses to answer that question, offering instead an unrelated prophecy which forecasts patricide and incest. Oedipus's assumption is incorrect, the Oracle does, in a way, answer his question: "On closer analysis the oracle contains essential information which Oedipus seems to neglect." The wording of the Oracle: I was doomed to be murderer of the father that begot me refers to Oedipus' real, biological father. Likewise the mother with polluted children is defined as the biological one. The wording of the