La Belle et La Bête, ein Filmkonzert

In the organizer's words:

Silent movie screening with live music

The project around the silent projection of Beauty and the Beast stands out due to its interdisciplinary nature. It is an initiative of music students from Wiesbaden, Frankfurt, Darmstadt and Würzburg.

The performance is based on the film La Belle et la Bête(Beauty and the Beast, 1946) by Jean Cocteau, which shaped film history, and the modern composition by Philip Glass (1994) in an arrangement by Lukas Popp (2025) for sextet and soloists. This will be played in sync with the projection and offers the opportunity to experience the mixture of timbres from the flute, accordion, trombone, cello, electric piano, marimba, vibraphone, glockenspiel and singers up close.

What at first seems like a simple fairy tale soon turns out to be a story that deals with a broader and deeper theme: the nature of the creative process. Through an extraordinary alchemy of the mind, the ordinary world is transformed into a world of magic. The power of the creative and the raw world of nature, embodied by the Beauty and the Beast, finally emerge and allow the world of imagination to flourish.

Lukas Popp, conductor and arranger

Mariko Lepage, soprano Belle

Eins Lee, baritone Bête

Julia Planitz, soprano Félicie

Miriam Menzel, soprano Adélaïde

Eunchong Choi, baritone Avenant

Kei Higashiura, baritone Ludovic

Richard Steinert, bass Père and Usurier

Ronja Ramisch, accordion

Pascale Schür, cello

Yansu Wang, piano

Ryu Iguchi, piano

Mirko Groß, trombone

Veronika Svitlytska, flute

Florian Weich, percussions