related works

the riot of spring : for tape and orchestra / Dmitri Kourliandski

Genre: Multimedia
Subgenre: Orchestra with multimedia
Scoring: tape 3fl 3ob 3cl 3sax 4h 3trp 3trb tb 4perc str

Dummies : -opera-, (1974) / muziek: Otto Ketting, text: Bert Schierbeek

Genre: Opera, musical theatre
Subgenre: Opera
Scoring: sopr ten bar 2cl(2sax) cl(sax cl-b) h trp trb tb perc el.org(perc)

Noach : opera in 5 aktes, voor sopraan, basbariton, vier boventoonzangers en instrumentaal ensemble, 1991-1993 / libretto: Friso Haverkamp, Guus Janssen

Genre: Opera, musical theatre
Subgenre: Opera
Scoring: recit sopr bas-bar 4overtone singers 0011 2sax 1110 perc drum hp g(el.g) pf 2vl vla vc cb electronics dancers

E lucevan le Stelle... : Music-scenic ritual for soprano, flute and tape / F. Xavier Gelabert i Muntaner

Genre: Opera, musical theatre
Subgenre: Opera
Scoring: sopr fl multimedia

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