La Belle et La Bête
One of the most celebrated and unique works in Philip Glass’s recent career is his live interpretation of Jean Cocteau’s masterpiece La Belle et la Bête. Originally conceived as part of a trilogy of stage productions celebrating the work of Jean Cocteau, La Belle et la Bête, is Glass’s most challenging experiment in synchronizing music with film. For this production, Glass removed the film’s original dialogue track and score by Georges Auric and replaced it with his own musical score played live by the Philip Glass Ensemble. The dialogue is sung by four live singers synchronized with the actors in the film.
“Mr. Glass has pressed his music into the mold of the movie, and produced something quite different—so different that it works extraordinarily well…This is the best sort of film music.”
The New Yorker