Glass: Orphée

Portland Opera/Manson (Orange Mountain Music, two CDs)First performed in 1993, Orphée was the first work in Glass's 1990s music-theatre trilogy, all based upon the screenplays of Jean Cocteau. It is the most conventionally "operatic" of the three works: La Belle et la Bête, which followed the next year, underpins a screening of Cocteau's film with a lip-synched musical setting of its script, while Les Enfants Terribles (1996) is designated as a dance opera, and restricts the accompaniment to t...

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