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Sophocles, one of the greats of Greek tragedy alongside Aeschylus and Euripides, created over 130 works, of which only a few have survived. Among them stand out Ajax, Antigone, Oedipus Rex, Electra, The Women of Trachis, Philoctetes, and Oedipus at Colonus. The tragedy Oedipus Rex, from antiquity to today, has remained the most famous, and Aristotle described it as an example of a perfect tragedy in his work "Poetics".

The Slovenian director, Vito Taufer, graduated in 1985 with a degree in directing from the Academy for Theatre, Radio, Film and Television in Ljubljana. During his career, he has staged more than 100 plays, directed several operas, and made one film. He collaborated with numerous theaters in the former Yugoslavia and received many prestigious awards for his work, including the Borštnik Awards, the Laurel Wreaths of Sarajevo's MESS, the Sterija Award, the "Marul" of Marulić Days, and the Prešeren Award. In 1996, he won the Special Award at the Bitef festival for the play Silence Silence Silence from the Slovenian Youth Theatre. Taufer has directed works by significant authors such as Gogol, Krleža, Ionesco, Shakespeare, Beckett, Sophocles, and Chekhov.

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