related works

Different Readings : for any solo instrument/voice/object and 7 mechanic music boxes / Dmitri Kourliandski

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Voice and instrument(s)
Scoring: voc

Requiem : for tenor, actor and ensemble; opus 37 / Micha Hamel

Genre: Opera, musical theatre
Subgenre: Opera
Scoring: ten pf fl(picc) bfl(shakuhachi) sax-s(sax-a) trb(tb) vl kemence perc 2hp org

Backwards from Winter : Operatic Monodrama in Four Scenes / Douglas Knehans; libretto by Juanita Rockwell

Genre: Opera, musical theatre
Subgenre: Opera
Scoring: vc sopr tape

The Cursed One : Video opera for the Opera Forward Festival / Tilen Lebar

Genre: Opera, musical theatre
Subgenre: Opera

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