related works

maps of non-existent cities. moscow (2 insights) : for 1, 2 or 3 performers / Dmitri Kourliandski

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Mixed ensemble (2-12 players)

Jimmy : opera, 2006/2007 / Edward van de Vendel, Edward Top

Genre: Opera, musical theatre
Subgenre: Opera

Creon : opera in three acts (unfinished) / Huub Kerstens; libretto: Peter te Nuyl

Genre: Opera, musical theatre
Subgenre: Opera
Scoring: soloists GK4 3333 3331 timp 2perc electronics

Een serenade in St. Jansnacht : comisch muziekspel in één bedrijf, aug. 1931-mrt. '32 / [tekst] door J.D.C. van Dokkum, met muziek van J.R.A. Felderhof

Genre: Opera, musical theatre
Subgenre: Opera
Scoring: 7soloists GK4 2222 sax-a/cl 1220 timp perc str(8.8.6.6.4.)

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