related works
the riot of spring : for tape and orchestra / Dmitri Kourliandski
Genre:
Multimedia
Subgenre:
Orchestra with multimedia
Scoring:
tape 3fl 3ob 3cl 3sax 4h 3trp 3trb tb 4perc str
Beach time : kameropera op een libretto van Monic Jansen, 1990 / Tom Grondman
Genre:
Opera, musical theatre
Subgenre:
Opera
Scoring:
3sopr sopr-m ten bar bas fl ob 2cl cl-b 2trp trb pf
St. Louis Blues : opera in 4 acts (version in English) / Chiel Meijering; libretto Paul Binnerts
Genre:
Opera, musical theatre
Subgenre:
Opera
Scoring:
3sopr 4ten 2010 2sax 1121 perc el.g g-b pf
Genre:
Opera, musical theatre
Subgenre:
Opera
Scoring:
4soloists 2recit KK GK 1010 0100 perc (cel ad lib.) pf4h str(vl vla vc)
composition
octavia. trepanation : Opera based on the tragedy "Octavia", attributed to Seneca and Trotsky's essay on Lenin / Dmitri Kourliandski; libretto: Boris Yukhananov and Dmitri Kourliandski
Other authors:
Kourliandski, Dmitri
(Composer)
Description:
In conducting our trepanation of revolution, we open a forehead and discover death, blood and tiranny. We sanitize it and graft a Buddha into the cavity, then we sew the forehead back up. We remove the source of the bloody revolution to seal off the notion of war forever. We transform a tyrant and send him to Nirvana.
Boris Yukhananov
The Opera’s music is based on the opening phrases of the revolutionary song Varshavyanika, but streches them out in almost 100 times. The temporal transformation of the song reveals various harmonic and melodic metamorphoses that become “nutritional material” for the 80-voice chorus, soloists and live electronic music thus arises a hermetic, self-referential construction that feeds on itself.
Dmitri Kourliandski