related works

чувствовать (to feel) / Dmitri Kourliandski

Genre: Unknown

Feniks : opera voor een zangeres en een zanger

Genre: Opera, musical theatre
Subgenre: Opera
Scoring: female voice male voice

Thyeste : drame lyrique en 4 actes, 2002/03 / texte: Hugo Claus, Jan van Vlijmen

Genre: Opera, musical theatre
Subgenre: Opera
Scoring: 8soloists GK2 1121 1110 hp man g cymb 2perc str

Het zwarte blondje : opera-buffa in 1 acte (3 taferelen), naar een oud-Italiaans gegeven / muziek: Jurriaan Andriessen, tekst: Jan Timmerman

Genre: Opera, musical theatre
Subgenre: Opera
Scoring: sopr bar pf cemb

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