The Marriages Betwe
The Marriages Between Zones 3, 4 & 5
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  listen to the opening of the opera:
"Rumours are the begetters of gossip.
Even more are they the begetters of song.
We, the story tellers and song makers of Zone Three,
profess that even before this Marriage took place,
the answers to our problems
were to be found in the songs and poems of our land."


PRESS COMMENTS
Mr Barker commands that most elusive and important quality needed for music of the stage - forward movement - indeed, I wager that we shall be hearing more from Paul, Barker.
FINANCIAL TIMES

His musical language hovers in an attractive zone somewhere between tonality and atonality; his vocal lines are testing as they are rewarding, and his writing for chamber orchestra is consistently inventive.
OPERA

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