La Belle et la Bête Suite (Beauty and the Beast)
About this Piece
Presented as a simple fairy tale, the opera soon makes it clear that the story has taken on a broader and deeper subject—the very nature of the creative process. Through an extraordinary alchemy of the spirit, the ordinary world is transformed into a world of magic. The power of the creative and the raw world of nature, represented respectively by Beauty and the Beast, finally emerges and allows the world of imagination to take flight.
—Note courtesy of philipglass.com