Jean Cocteau’s La Belle et la Bête (Beauty and the Beast) was long considered a masterpiece before Philip Glass decided to write an opera that would meld with the classic 1946 film on stage. Glass’ ...

"It has come to my attention that a ballet entitled Wuthering Heights featuring my music and using my name in its advertising and promotion is to premiere" at the Sevastopol Opera and Ballet Theatre, ...

The curtain rises on one of San Francisco's most exciting arts events of the year next week as Opera Parallèle presents the world premiere of its innovative take on "La Belle et La Bête" (Beauty and ...

A daily chronicle of creativity in film, TV, music, arts, and entertainment, produced by Southern California Public Radio and broadcast from November 2014 – March 2020. Host John Horn leads the ...

Composer’s genre-defying ‘La Belle et la Bete’ will be performed to Jean Cocteau’s classic 1946 film. Josette Day and Jean Marais in Jean Cocteau's "The Beauty and the Beast." The 1946 film will be ...

Madison Opera is earning some well-deserved kudos for courageous programming and Thursday night’s performance of the Philip Glass opera, ?Galileo Galilee,? is a good example of why that is. First of ...

Two of opera’s greatest stars come together to portray the pain of unrequited love in Tchaikovsky’s poetic drama. Soprano Renée Fleming is musically and dramatically radiant as the shy Tatiana, who ...

“Exquisite corpse” is the name of a game in which artists take turns creating parts of a whole, and it’s also the technique composers Philip Glass and Robert Moran used in their collaboration on the ...

Robert Wilson, the experimental theater stage director, playwright and choreographer whose career spanned decades of collaborations with such equally visionary artists as Philip Glass, Lou Reed, ...

Simultaneously stirring and meditative, an evening of Philip Glass on solo piano is a rare opportunity to experience this influential composer’s work firsthand. Debuting a program that features his ...