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Genre:
Opera, musical theatre
Subgenre:
Opera
Scoring:
soloists GK4 tape
Genre:
Opera, musical theatre
Subgenre:
Opera
Scoring:
5soloists 1111 1000 perc cemb 2vl vla vc cb actors acrobats
De passie van Johannes Mattheus Lanckohr : opera / Daan Manneke; libretto: Jo Janssen
Genre:
Opera, musical theatre
Subgenre:
Opera
Scoring:
3soloists GK4 fl(pic) cl trp trb 2perc org/el.org cb
Carmen : Opera / Georges Bizet / Alexey Sioumak; Libretto H. Meilhac and L. Halevy
Genre:
Opera, musical theatre
Subgenre:
Opera
Scoring:
zang fl/picc ob cl fg 2h tpt trb tb gtr lute bansuri santoor perc hp str
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