composer

Kourliandski, Dmitri

Dmitri Kourliandski was born in 1976 in Moscow. He graduated from the Moscow Conservatory and completed post-graduate course led by Leonid Bobylev. His compositions won several prizes at the international composers ...

related works

чувствовать (to feel) / Dmitri Kourliandski

Genre: Unknown

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

Salto mortale : opera in twee bedrijven, 1980 / muziek: Wim Stoppelenburg, libretto: Belcampo

Genre: Opera, musical theatre
Subgenre: Opera
Scoring: sopr alt ten bar bas 1111 1110 timp perc pf(cel) str(6.5.4.4.2.)

The piano teacher : a mini opera for children, to be performed by a speaking pianist and two mime players, 1991 / libretto: Fer Bank, Jacques Bank

Genre: Opera, musical theatre
Subgenre: Opera
Scoring: pf(recit) 2actors

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

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