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’ ...

No brilliant shaft of multicolored glass light will dazzle audiences when the new Seattle opera house opens in the summer of 2003. Even though Jun Kaneko got the nod for the $200,000 commission more ...

What happened this past Friday night in the University of Michigan’s Power Center theater can’t really be called an opera, at least in traditional terms. But what became apparent during its duration ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by The choreographers Bobbi Jene Smith and Or Schraiber will put their own spin on “Satyagraha” by Philip Glass for its Paris Opera premiere. By David ...

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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 ...

1 Washington National Opera Announces Plans to Leave the Kennedy Center 2 Post Kennedy Center Split, Washington National Opera Sets Stephen Schwartz Hosted WEST SIDE STORY Gala & More "It has come to ...

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, ...

Many people would rather watch the world's most famous crocodile wrestler than hear its most famous composer. But given that a stingray killed croc-hunter Steve Irwin last year, it might be time to ...