related works

чувствовать (to feel) / Dmitri Kourliandski

Genre: Unknown

Thijl : dramatische legende in een proloog, drie bedrijven en een epiloog, naar "De heldhaftige, vroolijke en roemrijke daden van Uilenspiegel en Lamme Goedzak in Vlaanderenland en elders" van Charles de Coster / muziek van Jan van Gilse, libretto van Hendrik Lindt

Genre: Opera, musical theatre
Subgenre: Opera
Scoring: soloists 2recit GK4 3343 4431 timp 3perc hp pf str dancers

Liefde's listen en lagen : vroolijke opera, (1944-45) / muziek van Henk Badings, tekst van Henk Badings met medewerking van Tom Bouws

Genre: Opera, musical theatre
Subgenre: Opera
Scoring: sopr alt ten bar bas 3221 3100 timp str

Aap verslaat de knekelgeest : = Monkey subdues the white-bone demon, = Affe besiegt Knochengeist, een strip-opera, a cartoon opera, eine Strip-Oper, (opus 28), (1980) / tekst en muziek van Peter Schat, English translation by Wanda Boeke, deutsche Uebersetzung von Siegfried Mrotzek, Peter Schat

Genre: Opera, musical theatre
Subgenre: Opera
Scoring: 5soloists 1111 1000 perc cemb 2vl vla vc cb actors acrobats

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