Written by We are delighted to announce that a full film of the Oxford Ancient Languages Society‘s sell-out 2024 performance of Euripides’ Orestes is now available online: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4hkHcDbt8I It is performed in the original Ancient Greek, with a freshly edited text and a complete new musical score, written in accordance with all that is known of Euripidean music, and incorporating an ancient fragment that may be by Euripides himself: a unique collaborative project bringing together students, scholars, and artists from Oxford University and across the world to demonstrate the vivid dramatic fruits of meticulous interdisciplinary scholarship.
Alongside this you can find a short introductory video here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBYA98soukA , explaining what makes this production so exciting and offering a window into its creation. A longer version of this video forms short documentary explaining the academic and artistic processes behind the production: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqaZUsvwwWM
We hope that this will provide useful resources for teaching and public engagement, as well as a chance for all those who could not make it to Oxford in November to watch the performance, and for those who did to watch it again!
Best regards,
Nicholas Romanos
President, Oxford Ancient Languages Society
Director, Orestes
