compositions
Marriages Between Zones 3, 4 & 5
1997

Info

133′

Music by Philip Glass.
Libretto by Doris Lessing.
Published by Dunvagen Music Publishers.

Commission

Commissioned by the Theater der Stadt Heidelberg.

Instrumentation

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

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.

Scores