Personally
I enjoyed the play more than the reading. When watching the opera,
one could really feel all the emotions come out of each character. I
feel that I had understood the play a lot more from watching it than
from reading it. I especially liked how they portrayed Jocasta’s
character in the opera. She was very dominant and strong which made
me think of her in a different way than how she was portrayed in the
reading. Something else that I thought was interesting was when after
Oedipus had stabbed his eyes out he broke out of his costume and was
became a naked man almost seeming hopeless. This was also after he
had learned the truth of what he had done. I thought this was
interesting because it showed his innocence and who he really was as
appose to Oedipus the King. In comparison to the reading, I did not
feel or imagine this kind of thing going on which made me appreciate
the opera more. Lastly, something strange I noticed was the
characters hands and how they were oversized. Throughout the whole
opera as I was watching it that was one major part that I would get
me distracted. Each character had different hand gestures and how
they were formed which made me think maybe it had to be in relation
to the characters themselves and who they were. I don’t have any
other reason of why they would make them the largest things on them.
Although that would be something I would like to know.
