related works

чувствовать (to feel) / Dmitri Kourliandski

Genre: Unknown

De snoek : = Der Hecht, komische opera in 3 acten, komische Oper in 3 Akten / muziek van Guillaume Landré, tekst van Emmy van Lokhorst

Genre: Opera, musical theatre
Subgenre: Opera
Scoring: sopr 2ten bar 2bas 2222 3220 timp perc str

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

Genre: Opera, musical theatre
Subgenre: Opera

Het land van de A : een kameropera in 6 scènes, 1990 / muziek en libretto van Ko Duijvestijn

Genre: Opera, musical theatre
Subgenre: Opera
Scoring: 2sopr ten 3bas cl trp perc pf vc

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