180′
Music by Philip Glass.
Libretto by Doris Lessing based on her novel.
Published by Dunvagen Music Publishers.

Commissioned by the Houston Grand Opera, the English National Opera and the Landestheater Kiel, Germany.

2S, Mz, A, 2Bas, 2B, SATB Chorus; 2(pic).2.2.bcl.2/ 4.3.2.btrb.1/ 3 perc (timp, SD, BD, cym, tamb, tgl, glsp)/ hp/ str

Doris Lessing’s philosophical/mystical novel tells of an Eden-like planet plunged into an ice age that is extinguishing all life. Guided by the overlords from Canopus, an extra-terrestrial civilization, the people of Planet 8 learn to accept their individual deaths and evolve into a collective universal soul (the ‘Representative’ of the title), that survives physical destruction.

The Making of the Representative for Planet 8 at Wise Music Classical