related works

Happy mill : Interactive audio-visual fast-food performance ; for chicken nuggets, French fries, carrot stics, coca-cola; 4 female assistants, live electronics and video / Dmitri Kourliandski

Genre: Unknown

Dummies : -opera-, (1974) / muziek: Otto Ketting, text: Bert Schierbeek

Genre: Opera, musical theatre
Subgenre: Opera
Scoring: sopr ten bar 2cl(2sax) cl(sax cl-b) h trp trb tb perc el.org(perc)

Eleni : A Lyric Opera in Two Acts / Nestor Taylor; libretto by Fergus Currie

Genre: Opera, musical theatre
Subgenre: Opera
Scoring: zang GK KK 2fl(picc) 2ob eh 2cl cl-b 2fg 4h 4tpt 3trb tb-cb timp 3perc hp str

The Death of the Hired Man : Chamber opera in one act for mezzo-soprano, tenor and piano / Man-Ching Yu Donald; libretto by Walter Wykes

Genre: Opera, musical theatre
Subgenre: Opera
Scoring: ST pf

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