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Journal article

Philip Glass’s Cocteau Trilogy, or the Multiple Ways of Adapting Film into Opera

  • 2022
Published in:
  • The Opera Quarterly. - Winter-Autumn 2022. - 2022, vol. 38, no. 1-4, p. 24-42
Glass, Philip
Cocteau Trilogy
Orphée
La Belle et la Bête; ; ; film-based operas; ;
Les Enfants terribles
Cocteau, Jean
film-based operas;
opera based on film
contemporary opera
English With his Cocteau trilogy, Glass challenges the definition of opera as a genre in that his Orphée (1993), La Belle et la Bête (1994), and Les Enfants terribles (1996) are based on films, an unusual choice of source at the time. By focusing on the adaptation process and determining what filmic components remain in Glass’s operas, I will be able to show what is at stake when adapting a film into opera. Because Glass’s Cocteau trilogy shows the many possibilities for adapting a film into opera, it is a particularly useful case study for demonstrating the complexity of the relationship between film and opera in film-based operas. Ultimately it will allow me to address the very concept of film-based opera and show the limits of this term. Adaptation process, production history and staging will be taken into consideration.
Faculty
Faculté des lettres et des sciences humaines
Department
Département de musicologie
Language
  • English
Classification
Music
License
License undefined
Open access status
green
Identifiers
Persistent URL
https://folia.unifr.ch/unifr/documents/329412
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