related works

maps of non-existent cities. saint petersburg : for violin / Dmitri Kourliandski

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Violin
Scoring: vl

De spiegel uit Venetië / Hendrik Andriessen

Genre: Opera, musical theatre
Subgenre: Opera
Scoring: 2sopr 2alt 2ten bar bas 2222 2200 timp perc cemb str

Liefdesspoken : Operetta / Israel Olman

Genre: Opera, musical theatre
Subgenre: Opera

De Synode (De koopman en de dominee) : A chamber opera in a prologue and two acts, for four singers and six musicians / Jan-Peter de Graaff; libretto by Yuri Robbers

Genre: Opera, musical theatre
Subgenre: Opera
Scoring: zang ob(eh/ob d'amore) sax(sax-s/sax-a/sax-bar/cl-b) pf hp vn cb

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