related works

An Evening Song To She Who Exists By My Name : for strings and low drum / Dmitri Kourliandski; based on a text by Daniil Kharms

Genre: Orchestra
Subgenre: String orchestra
Scoring: drum str

Amandante : Opera: Version for string orchestra / Maxim Shalygin; libretto by Paul van der Woerd

Genre: Opera, musical theatre
Subgenre: Opera
Scoring: 2sopr 2bar pf perc str

Alceste : Opera / Ton de Leeuw; tekst Ton de Leeuw (naar Euripides)

Genre: Opera, musical theatre
Subgenre: Opera
Scoring: sopr sopr-m ten bar MK fl 2ob 2cl 2fg 2trp 2trb db perc hp pf

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)

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