Double Bill: New Opera by Jocy de Oliveira and Oedipus Rex Tickets

The double bill for the 2026 Season of the São Paulo Municipal Theater features two modern music composers whose careers intersect: Curitiba native Jocy de Oliveira and Russian Igor Stravinsky.

To commemorate the artist's 90th birthday, which she celebrates in 2026, the Theater commissions a new opera from Jocy. With her extensive output as a composer, writer, pianist, and multimedia artist, she pioneered electroacoustic music in Brazil, composed 11 operas (including Fata Morgana, the first by a woman to be staged at the São Paulo Municipal Theater), won a Jabuti Prize, and maintained creative dialogue with renowned composers such as Stravinsky himself, Claudio Santoro, John Cage, Stockhausen, and Eleazar de Carvalho. Jocy currently holds a chair at the Brazilian Academy of Music.

The stage director for Jocy de Oliveira's new production is Ana Vanessa, a graduate in performing arts – theater direction from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). In 2011, she began directing shortened versions of the operas Faust, La Bohème, Il Tabarro, and Gianni Schicchi at the Niterói Municipal Theater and the Federal Justice Cultural Center. Since then, she has worked on several productions as assistant stage director and stage director at the country's major opera houses, including the Amazonas Opera Festival and the Ouro Preto Opera Festival. At the São Paulo Municipal Theater, she served as assistant director on such productions as Falstaff, Carmen, Salomé, Cavalleria Rusticana/I Pagliacci, Tosca, Otello, Eugene Onegin, Thaïs, and Il Guarany. As a stage director, she has directed works such as Ariadne auf Naxos, Fidelio, Cendrillon, Isolde/Tristan, and The Magic Flute. In 2019, she directed Madama Butterfly at the municipal theaters of Botucatu and Lençóis Paulista. Still as a director, in 2024, she made her debut at the Rio de Janeiro Municipal Theater with the opera La Serva Padrona at the Oficina Festival and at the São Pedro Theater in São Paulo with the Lyrical Composition Workshop, winner of the Concerto magazine Innovation Award.

Alongside Jocy's new work, Igor Stravinsky's opera-oratorio Oedipus the King, premiered in 1927 in Paris, will be presented. This opera is part of the Russian composer's so-called neoclassical period and stems from his collaboration with one of the greatest figures of 20th-century French theater , Jean Cocteau, a prominent figure in surrealism and theater of the absurd. The work, which serves as the basis for the libretto, is the first tragedy in Sophocles' trilogy – which continues with Antigone and Oedipus at Colonus – and has as its central figure Oedipus, marked by a terrible prophecy: to take the life of his own father and marry his own mother.

Georgette Fadel is the stage director of this production. She is an actress, director, and teacher with degrees from the School of Dramatic Arts (EAD-USP) and the Department of Performing Arts at ECA-USP. She was a professor at the Free School of Theater and worked at the School of Dramatic Arts at Célia Helena College. Noted for her versatility, she excelled both as a performer and as a director in contemporary theater. Among her most iconic shows are "Gota D'Água" and "Rainhas – Duas Atrizes em Busca de um Coração." She is one of the founders of the São Jorge Variety Company, created in 1998, and was a member of the Bartolomeu de Depoimentos Group, where she continues to collaborate. Her career is marked by political engagement, language research, and an intense performance that moves between drama, farce, and performance.