related works

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

Genre: Opera, musical theatre
Subgenre: Opera
Scoring: soloists GK4 tape

Krotkaya : Opera / music by Alexey Kurbatov; libretto by Ludmila Naletova

Genre: Opera, musical theatre
Subgenre: Opera
Scoring: zang fl/fl-a ob/eh cl/cl-b fg h tpt trb perc hp synth str

Die Grosse Katharina (Great Catherine) : Opera / Ignace Lilien

Genre: Opera, musical theatre
Subgenre: Opera

Meester Max : en de minimonsters in het donkere bos, kinderopera, 2007 / Ron Ford

Genre: Opera, musical theatre
Subgenre: Opera
Scoring: recit fl ob cl fg h trp trb mar 2vl vla vc cb

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