Katia and Marielle Labèque perform the suites for two pianos from the three operas making up Philip Glass’s Cocteau Trilogy in a staging designed by Nina Chalot and Cyril Teste, in harmony with a new fragrance by Francis Kurkdjian. 

His time in Paris studying under Nadia Boulanger (1964–1966) left Philip Glass with a love of French culture extending well beyond music. After his trilogy of portraits (Einstein, Gandhi and Akhenaton), Glass turned to the work of Jean Cocteau for his next operas, revisiting Orphée and La Belle et la Bête. He concluded the trilogy with Les Enfants terribles, a Cocteau novel at once tragic and frighteningly light, in which two children construct a consuming imaginary world within the four walls of their bedroom. A tale masterfully rendered by Glass’s colourful and infinite music, played here by Katia and Marielle Labèque, in artful alchemy with a delicate new fragrance by Francis Kurkdjian.