Date,
Time & Ticket information:
Show previews Thursday,
September 15 at 8pm
Opening Friday, September 16 and continuing Thursdays - Sundays through Sunday, October 2
Thursday, Friday & Saturday curtain
at 8pm
- Doors & box office at 7pm
Sunday curtain at 2pm
- Doors & box office at 1pm
Advance Ticket Prices:
Thursday & Sunday - $24/general & $18/students &
seniors
Friday & Saturday - $27.50/general & $22/students
& seniors
Advance tickets can be purchased online or by check. Click
link below for instructions.
Day of Performance Ticket
Prices:
Thursday & Sunday - $28/general & $22/students &
seniors
Friday & Saturday - $32/general & $25/students
& seniors
A limited number of tickets will be available on the day of
each performance, 1 hour before showtime.
Michael
Mohammed & Marguerite Krull in Oakland Opera Theater's Production
of La Belle et la Bête.
Photo by Lori Eanes.
La Belle et la Bête
• Score - Philip
Glass • based on the film
by Jean Cocteau
- the OOT production will NOT be using the film but instead will fully-stage
the production.
• Musical Director - Deirdre McClure •
• Stage Director - Tom Dean •
• Circus Arts Choreograaphy - Jodi Power •
The Oakland Opera Theater production of the phenomenal 1995 opera by Philip Glass will feature a 10-piece orchestra, interactive elements, and pays homage to the circus.
THE STORY
Beauty and the Beast is a fairy tale of love and desire,
interpreted dramtically in the Jean Cocteau film. The Philip Glass score
explores the relationship that these elements have in common with the
artistic process - from the composer's notes:
"A subtle reflection on the life of an Artist, Philip Glass' second opera based on works by Cocteau, in its original version performed in conjunction with the projected film (with the original version soundtrack eliminated entirely). Presented as a simple fairy talem it soon becomes clear that the history 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."
THE SET
The fully-staged production will feature settings created by Tom Dean
& Garrett Lowe, with elements created by Oakland visual artists. The
audience begins the evening in a French café and later finds themselves
exploring the midway of a small European circus.
THE VENUE
All performances will be held at the Oakland Metro, our own venue, located
at 201 Broadway (@ 2nd St.) near Jack London Square.
Reception tent at Circus Oz.....
Production funded in part
by generous grants from:
The Argosy Fund for Contemporary Music
The Barbro Osher Pro Suecia Foundation
The City of Oakland Crafts & Cultural Arts Department
The Traister Family
