related works

resonances : for any instrument / Dmitri Kourliandski

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Mixed ensemble (2-12 players)
Scoring: instr

Un malheureux vêtu de noir : opera in drie bedrijven (9 scènes) op een libretto van Johan Thielemans met dramaturgisch advies van Karst Woudstra, deels gebaseerd op brieffragmenten van Vincent van Gogh, Theo van Gogh en Johanna Bonger, (1988-1990) / Jan van Vlijmen

Genre: Opera, musical theatre
Subgenre: Opera
Scoring: sopr ten bar bas-bar MK3 2232 2110 perc hp man pf(cel) 2vl vla vc cb

Pulvis Liquiritiae Compositus : Opera / Israel Olman

Genre: Opera, musical theatre
Subgenre: Opera

De naam van de maan : jeugdopera in 2 akten, 1988 / libretto: Annie M.G. Schmidt [en] Flip van Duyn, Kees Olthuis

Genre: Opera, musical theatre
Subgenre: Opera
Scoring: 5soloists JeK 2221 1210 timp 2perc pf str

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

Author(s):
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