related works

Possible Places : for violin solo and ensemble / Dmitri Kourliandski

Genre: Orchestra
Subgenre: Violin and large ensemble
Scoring: vl-solo fl-a fl-b eh cl-b cl-cb cfg 2tpt trb tb perc gt hp pf 2vn 2vla 2vc db

Blauwe appel : kameropera in acht scènes, 1983/1984 / libretto: Karst Woudstra, Boudewijn Tarenskeen

Genre: Opera, musical theatre
Subgenre: Opera
Scoring: sopr sopr-m 3ten 3bar 3perc 2pf

Oikos : schoolopera in twee bedrijven, 1980 / muziek: Andries Hubers, libretto : Bab Westerveld

Genre: Opera, musical theatre
Subgenre: Opera
Scoring: 4soloists 2GK4 3121 0310 timp 2perc (g-b ad lib.) pf str Orff-instr electronics

Wildevrouw : Opera / Robert Groslot; libretto by Jeroen Olyslaegers

Genre: Opera, musical theatre
Subgenre: Opera
Scoring: zang GK picc 2fl(picc/fl-a) 2ob eh 2cl cl-b 2fg cfg(fg) 4h 3tpt(tpt-picc) 2trb trb-b tb timp 4perc hp 2synth 2lute 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