related works

the riot of spring : for tape and orchestra / Dmitri Kourliandski

Genre: Multimedia
Subgenre: Orchestra with multimedia
Scoring: tape 3fl 3ob 3cl 3sax 4h 3trp 3trb tb 4perc str

Listen en lagen van de Liefde : vroolijke opera voor sopraan, alt, tenor, bariton, bas en orkest / Henk Badings

Genre: Opera, musical theatre
Subgenre: Opera
Scoring: sopr alt ten bar bas 3221 3100 timp str

François Villon : Opéra en 1 acte et 3 tableaux / Libretto and music: Sem Dresden

Genre: Opera, musical theatre
Subgenre: Opera
Scoring: soloists 3recit SATB 3220 2000 perc hp pf str dancers

Das grüne Gesicht : eine allegorische Oper in sechs Szenen, 1981-1991 / Libretto vom Komponisten nach Texten von Gustav Meyrink und Ludwig Jacobowski, Hans Kox

Genre: Opera, musical theatre
Subgenre: Opera
Scoring: sopr sopr-m ten bar bas 3242 4331 timp perc cel 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

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