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AVAILABLE SCORES:
The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four, and Five at ChesterNovello.com

CATEGORIES:
Opera

The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four and Five

An opera in two acts, for orchestra, chorus and soloists (1997) 133'

Music by Philip Glass.
Libretto by Doris Lessing.

CAST:
2s, 2Mz, T, 2Bar, B; SATB chorus 2(pic).2.2(Ecl).bcl.2/3.3.2btrb.1/perc (SD, TD, BD, tom-t, tgl, maracas, cow bell, hi-hat, wdbl, tamb, cym, finger cyms, cast, tam-t, xyl, t.bells, African drums, glsp, cel)/2 syn/1 vl, 1vc/ off stage chorus SATB

COMMISSION:
Commissioned by the Theater der Stadt Heidelberg

PREMIERE:
May 10, 1997 at the Theater der Stadt Heidelberg

NOTES:
Marriages is the 2nd part of the trilogy of opera's based on the Canopus in Argos series of novels by Doris Lessing.

PUBLISHER:
Dunvagen Music Publishers