related works
maps of non-existent cities. moscow (2 insights) : for 1, 2 or 3 performers / Dmitri Kourliandski
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Mixed ensemble (2-12 players)
Genre:
Opera, musical theatre
Subgenre:
Opera
Scoring:
soloists 2recit GK4 3343 4431 timp 3perc hp pf str dancers
The Mothers of Kherson : Opera / Maxim Kolomiiets; libretto by George Brant
Genre:
Opera, musical theatre
Subgenre:
Opera
Scoring:
zang GK VK KK 3fl 2ob eh 2cl cl-b 2fg cfg 4h 2tpt 2trb trb-b tb timp 3perc bandura cel hp pf str
Styx : Opera / Chiel Meijering; tekst van Imme Dros, bewerkt door Joke Hoolboom
Genre:
Opera, musical theatre
Subgenre:
Opera
Scoring:
zang fl sax-a sax-t sax-bar h 3trp 3trb drum pf g-e-b
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
Author(s):
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