La Belle et la Bête

Opéra de Philip Glass / Film de Jean Cocteau

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Salle des concerts - Cité de la musique

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Duration: about 1h30

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Opéra pour film, voix et ensemble de Philip Glass

Film de Jean Cocteau

Philip Glass Ensemble

Michael Riesman , conducting, claviers

Hai-Ting Chinn , La Belle

Marie Mascari , Félicie, Adélaïde

Gregory Purnhagen , La Bête, L'Officier du Port, Avenant, Ardent

Peter Stewart , Le Père Ludovic

Philip Glass not only takes Jean Cocteau’s Beauty and the Beast as the source for this piece, recomposing the soundtrack for the 1946 masterpiece, he also sets the singers to keep pace with their roles in the film…The result is stunning, and Glass creates a kind of film opera brimming with heady tunes.