related works
Genre:
Opera, musical theatre
Subgenre:
Opera
Scoring:
soloists GK4 tape
Genre:
Opera, musical theatre
Subgenre:
Opera
Scoring:
sopr alt ten bar 1110 0000 (perc ad lib.) pf str (dancers ad lib.)
Genre:
Opera, musical theatre
Subgenre:
Opera
Scoring:
recit GK4 2acc 2perc
Aan de Wannsee : opera, 1986 / libretto Louis Ferron, Geert van Keulen
Genre:
Opera, musical theatre
Subgenre:
Opera
Scoring:
sopr-m bar cl(cl-b cl-cb) h 2perc synth 2vl vla vc tape
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