Organization

Admin

Barbican Centre

Stage director

Cyril Teste

Set designer

Nina Chalot

Instrumentalist

Marielle Labèque

Piano

Katia Labèque

Cité de la Musique-Philharmonie

National Concert Hall

Cité Musicale - Metz

Opéra National de Bordeaux

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La Comète

Cocteau Trilogy

London

United Kingdom

Barbican Concert Hall

Cocteau Trilogy: Orphée Glass (+2 More)

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Private

Orphée

Beauty and the Beast

The Terrible Children

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Legendary sibling pianists Katia and Marielle Labèque present their recent collaboration with American minimalist composer Philip Glass: arrangements for two pianos of his Cocteau Trilogy.

In 2021, Katia and Marielle Labèque created instrumental suites for two pianos from Philip Glass’s opera Les Enfants Terribles, based on Jean Cocteau’s film. The result was so successful that they approached Glass to complete the set with the remaining two operas in the Cocteau Trilogy: Orphée and La Belle et la Bête. In a special collaboration with the Philharmonie de Paris, Katia and Marielle Labèque bring their ‘velveteen touch’ (Guardian) into a new dimension: suspended above the stage, a chandelier transports us to the intimate spaces within Cocteau’s stories, lighting up as it interacts with the music below.

‘The Labèque sisters are tremendous. They’re great performers, and great interpreters. And they’re wonderful supporters of music – not only modern music, but just music. It was great to work with them.’ – Philip Glass.

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Cocteau Trilogy by Glass, From (2024/2024), Directed by Cyril Teste,, Barbican Centre, London, United Kingdom

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