related works

Dolce Stil Nuovo : String quartet Nº 3 / Dmitri Kourliandski

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: String quartet (2 violins, viola, cello)
Scoring: 2vn vla vc

St. Louis Blues : opera in 4 akten, 1994 / Chiel Meijering; libretto Paul Binnerts

Genre: Opera, musical theatre
Subgenre: Opera
Scoring: 3sopr 4ten 2010 2sax 1121 perc el.g g-b pf

Labyrint : een opera, 1960/'65 / Peter Schat

Genre: Opera, musical theatre
Subgenre: Opera
Scoring: alt ten bas 5actors GK4 3334 4332 timp 4perc hp pf str(0.13.10.8.) cl-b-perc-pf-cb-solo dancers film tape

Illegal Alien : Opera in One Act / libretto and music: Alfonso Molina

Genre: Opera, musical theatre
Subgenre: Opera
Scoring: zang 2fl 2cl 2fg sax-a pf 2perc hp 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