related works

An Evening Song To She Who Exists By My Name : for strings and low drum / Dmitri Kourliandski; based on a text by Daniil Kharms

Genre: Orchestra
Subgenre: String orchestra
Scoring: drum str

Winter cruise : opera in three acts, 1977 / libretto by the composer after a short story by Somerset Maugham, Hans Henkemans

Genre: Opera, musical theatre
Subgenre: Opera
Scoring: 7soloists 3343 4431 timp 3perc cel man 2hp pf str actors

Feniks : opera voor een zangeres en een zanger

Genre: Opera, musical theatre
Subgenre: Opera
Scoring: female voice male voice

Das Kirschblütenfest : Opera / Erik Lotichius; text: original Japanese

Genre: Opera, musical theatre
Subgenre: Opera
Scoring: Stenzo; teacher: Tenor; Tonani; his wife: Mezzo-soprano; Matsuo; chancellor: ???; Gemba; the chancellors vassal; ??? etc. Ensemble: 2 Flutes; 2 Oboes; English horn; 2 Clarinets in B-flat; 2 Bassoons; 3 Horns; 3 Trumpets; 3 Trombones; Timpani; Percussion; Mixed Choir; Strings.

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