The Making of the Representative for Planet 8 (opera)

Philip Glass

Operas Einstein on the Beach (1976) Satyagraha (1980) The Photographer (1982) Akhnaten (1983) the CIVIL warS (1984) The Juniper Tree with Moran (1985) The Making of the Representative for Planet 8 (1988) 1000 Airplanes on the Roof (1988) Hydrogen Jukebox (1990) The Voyage (1992) Monsters of Grace (1998) In the Penal Colony (2000) Galileo Galilei (2002) The Sound of a Voice (2003) Waiting for the Barbarians (2005) Appomattox (2007) Kepler (2009) The Perfect American (2013)

The Making of the Representative for Planet 8 is a full-scale opera by Philip Glass with a libretto by Doris Lessing based on her novel of the same name, first performed in 1988.

The opera was co-commissioned by English National Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Het Muziektheater, Amsterdam, and Theater Kiel, and co-produced with Artpark, Lewiston, New York State.

Performance history

The opera was first performed at Houston Grand Opera on 8 July 1988.^[1] The British premiere was 9 November 1988 by English National Opera at the London Coliseum.^[2] This production was broadcast live in the UK on BBC Radio 3 on 13 December 1988. Due to a technical fault, scene four from act 3 was not broadcast.

Roles

Role	Voice type	Houston premiere, 8 July 1988 (Conductor: John DeMain)	London premiere, 9 November 1988 (Conductor: Michael Lloyd)^[3]
Doeg Memory-maker and Storyteller	baritone	Harlan Foss	Andrew Shore
Johor Canopean agent	bass	Timothy Breeze	Richard Angas
Alsi a young woman	soprano	Louise Edeiken	Lesley Garrett
Marl Keeper of the Herds	baritone	David Langan	Simon Masterton-Smith
Bratch Guardian of Health	mezzo-soprano	Julia Parks	Tamsin Dives
Pedug Teacher of the Young	baritone	Richard Sutliff	John Kitchiner
Rivalin Custodian of the Lake	mezzo-soprano	Patricia Shockler	Jady Pearl
Masson the Builder	tenor	Edgar Moore	Peter Bamber
Klin Tender of Fruits and Plants	soprano	Edrie Means	Gloria Crane
Nooni a young man	tenor	Jason Alexander	Christopher Gillett

Synopsis

The people of Planet 8 are peaceful and content, until one of the Canopean Agents arrives and tells them to prepare for an impending ice age. The embattled population fights courageously in the face of certain death, and their efforts are transformed when they become the one single 'representative' of the planet's people and culture.

Recordings

Unlike many of Philip Glass's other operas, The Making of the Representative for Planet 8 has not been recorded for CD sale.

References

Notes

↑ Houston Grand Opera program notes
↑ English National Opera programme notes. Henrietta Bredin (editor), Battley Brothers Printers, London.
↑ "Planet 8: a total mismatch" by Andrew Clements, Opera, January 1989, p. 15

External links

Dedicated page on the official web site of Philip Glass
Details of the opera, including production photographs, dorislessing.org
"Reviews/Music; New Opera By Lessing And Glass" by John Rockwell, The New York Times, 11 July 1988

Philip Glass

Compositions	Music in Twelve Parts Glassworks String Quartet No. 2 The Light Passages Itaipu Songs from Liquid Days Aguas da Amazonia

Operas	Einstein on the Beach Satyagraha The Photographer Akhnaten The Civil Wars The Juniper Tree The Making of the Representative for Planet 8 1000 Airplanes on the Roof Hydrogen Jukebox The Voyage Monsters of Grace White Raven In the Penal Colony Galileo Galilei The Sound of a Voice Waiting for the Barbarians Appomattox Kepler The Perfect American

Symphonies	Symphony No. 1 (Low) Symphony No. 2 Symphony No. 3 Symphony No. 4 (Heroes) Symphony No. 5 (Choral) Symphony No. 6 (Plutonian Ode) Symphony No. 7 (A Toltec Symphony) Symphony No. 8 Symphony No. 9 Symphony No. 10

Concertos	Piano Concerto No. 1 (Tirol) Piano Concerto No. 2 (After Lewis and Clark) Harpsichord Concerto Violin Concerto (withdrawn) Violin Concerto No. 1 Violin Concerto No. 2 (American Four Seasons) Cello Concerto No. 1 Concerto Fantasy for Two Timpanists and Orchestra

Related articles	List of compositions by Philip Glass Philip Glass Ensemble Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts Minimal music Robert Wilson Dennis Russell Davies David Henry Hwang Errol Morris La Monte Young Steve Reich Terry Riley Kronos Quartet Philip Glass Buys a Loaf of Bread

Works by Doris Lessing

Novels	The Grass Is Singing Martha Quest The Golden Notebook A Proper Marriage A Ripple from the Storm Landlocked The Four-Gated City Memoirs of a Survivor Shikasta The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four and Five The Sirian Experiments The Making of the Representative for Planet 8 The Sentimental Agents in the Volyen Empire The Good Terrorist The Fifth Child Ben, in the World The Sweetest Dream The Cleft

Short stories	"Through the Tunnel" "Flight"

Collections	Prisons We Choose to Live Inside The Grandmothers: Four Short Novels

Autobiography	Under My Skin Walking in the Shade

Science fiction	Canopus in Argos The Making of the Representative for Planet 8

Other	Alfred and Emily

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