Opera Parallèle's staging of Philip Glass' "La Belle et la Bête" delivers a spellbinding blend of opera and film in Berkeley.
Philip Glass is an old hand at scoring films. His 1994 work with Jean Cocteau's superb "La Belle et La Bête" (1946) is the second of a Cocteau trilogy including "Orphée" and "Les Enfants Terribles." ...
Philip Glass' "La Belle et la Bête" returns as Opera Parallèle blends Cocteau's 1946 film with live singers in a surreal, high-tech Bay Area revival.
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