Glass, Philip
Glass, Philip (1937– ),American composer whose La Belle et la Bête: An Opera for Ensemble and Film (première, 1994) is an innovative operatic adaptation of Jean Cocteau's film La Belle et la Bête ( Beauty and the Beast , 1946). Glass transforms Cocteau's film into a live production of music‐theatre by eliminating the film's soundtrack, synchronizing his new operatic score with the film, and presenting live singers before their characters on screen. As an interpretation of the fairy‐tale film, Glass's operatic score and media experiment stress the love story and the artist's inward journey towards creativity.
Donald Haase
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