The Creation (Haydn) of Eve is usually sung by the same soloist who sings Gabriel. This was the practice Haydn followed, but some conductors prefer to cast each of the five roles with a different soloist. The choral singers are employed in a series of monumental choruses, several of them celebrating the end of one particular day of creation. The orchestra often plays alone, notably in the episodes of tone painting: the appearance of the sun, the creation of various beasts, and above all in the overture, the famous depiction of the Chaos before the creation. The oratorio is structured in three parts.
The Creation of the World and Other Business over Britain and Europe between 1969 and 1974. Miller reworked the play into a musical, "Up From Paradise", which opened in 1974 at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. In 2004, Citizens of the Universe's production of Creation of the World and Other Business was banned from playing at Greenville Technical College. In 2014, the Theater Department at Orange Coast College put on a rock and roll jukebox musical version of the play. The Creation of the World and Other Business The Creation of the World and Other Business is a play by Arthur Miller first performed in 1972.