Vanessa Becerra & Hadleigh Adams Lead Opera Parallèle’s ‘Beauty and the Beast’

Opera Parallèle is ready to collaborate with SFJAZZ for Philip Glass’ opera “Magnificence and the Beast.”

The opera is predicated on the epic 1946 romantic fantasy movie by French poet and filmmaker, Jean Cocteau. The manufacturing, which is ready to be carried out on July 14, 15, 16, and 17 at SFJAZZ, will fuse opera and movie.

In a press release, Opera Parallèle’s Director and Idea Designer Brian Staufenbiel mentioned, “The synergy of movie and opera is deep within the DNA of Opera Parallèle’s aesthetic and historical past of previous productions. Our privileged relationship with Philip Glass has impressed us to complete his Cocteau-trilogy with this new model of La Belle et la Bête. OP’s strategy has been to reply to the dream-like aware and unconscious components with our personal filmed sections and reside motion on-stage. We discover the questions —like Cocteau— of what’s true magnificence, and within the higher context of this dream-tale, what is sweet and evil? Cocteau understood what it was prefer to reside with a masks, in concern of exhibiting his true self and sexual orientation, therefore his higher allegorical query: can we transcend exterior appearances and classes (the aware, the beast) and uncover what magnificence lies contained in the soul, (the unconscious). Once I take this masks off, will you like me for who I’m?”

The opera’s solid will characteristic soprano Vanessa Becerra in her San Francisco operatic debut as La Belle and baritone Hadleigh Adams as La Bête/Le Prince/Avenant. Baritone Eugene Brancoveanu and soprano Sophie Delphis will be part of the solid.

The MANA Saxophone Quartet, keyboardists Keisuke Nakagoshi (OP’s resident pianist), Kevin Korth and Taylor Chan and Kjell Nordeson on percussion carry out the rating.

Nicole Paiement conducts Brian Staufenbiel’s manufacturing.