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15 June 2024 Dublin (Ireland)
Perspectives: Philip Glass Cocteau Trilogy
Katia Labèque Piano - Marielle Labèque Piano - National Concert Hall, Main Stage
Program Info: Philip Glass - Orphée Philip Glass - La Belle et la Bête, score for Jean Cocteau’s film from 1946 Philip Glass - Les Enfants Terribles (suite for two pianos)
NCH is pleased to collaborate on this new commission by Katia and Marielle Labèque for Phillip Glass.
In 1964, at the age of 27, Philip Glass moved to Paris to study under Nadia Boulanger. Their meeting would prove decisive in the young composer’s training and afforded him an immersion into French culture that left a lasting impression on the artist. His love of France also gave him a command of the French language that would help him to write and versify the operas that he dedicated to Cocteau during the 1990s.
In 2021, Katia and Marielle Labèque created the instrumental suites for two pianos taken from Philip Glass’s opera Les Enfants Terribles, based on the film by Cocteau. The success of both the record and their concerts – held at venues including the Philharmonie de Paris – left the pianists all the more eager to ask Philip Glass and his music director Michael Riesman to complete the trilogy by applying the same method to the remaining two operas in the Cocteau Trilogy: Orphée and La Belle et la Bête.
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