related works
resonances : for any instrument / Dmitri Kourliandski
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Mixed ensemble (2-12 players)
Scoring:
instr
Hôtel de Pékin : dreams for a dragon queen, opera / music: Willem Jehts, libretto: Friso Haverkamp
Genre:
Opera, musical theatre
Subgenre:
Opera
Scoring:
soloists GK4 MK2 fl fl(pic) ob ob(eh) 2cl fg fg(cfg) 2h trp trp(trp-p) trb-t trb-b tb 5timp cel(pf, el. pf) 8perc str(12.10.8.6.4.) erhu-solo
Alzheimer : a tragicomic opera (version in english) / Chiel Meijering; libretto: Bert Keizer
Genre:
Opera, musical theatre
Subgenre:
Opera
Scoring:
14soloists 4hp perc 2vl vla vc
Genre:
Opera, musical theatre
Subgenre:
Opera
Scoring:
zang perc hp of vn 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