related works

Possible Places 3 : harp and accordion solos, flute, clarinet, bassoon, trombone, cello, double bass / Dmitri Kourliandski

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Mixed ensemble (2-12 players)
Scoring: hp acc fl-b cl-b cfg trb vc db

The Ascension of Robert Flau : Chamber Opera / Douglas Knehans

Genre: Opera, musical theatre
Subgenre: Opera

I Will Come Back : a chamber opera / Robert Groslot

Genre: Opera, musical theatre
Subgenre: Opera
Scoring: Mezzo soprano, Baritone, fl, ob, cl, ba, hn, harp, piano/celesta/synth, db, choir SATB

Liefde's listen en lagen : vroolijke opera, (1944-45) / muziek van Henk Badings, tekst van Henk Badings met medewerking van Tom Bouws

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