related works

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

Genre: Opera, musical theatre
Subgenre: Opera
Scoring: soloists GK4 tape

Capodistrias: Monodrama of a secret life : chamber opera for piano solo, bass-baritone, basset horn and string ensemble / Calliope Tsoupaki

Genre: Opera, musical theatre
Subgenre: Opera
Scoring: bar-bass pf basseth 2vn vla vc db

Rixt : opera in 2 akten / libretto: Mark Valencia, Friese vertaling: Geert van der Meer, Henk Alkema

Genre: Opera, musical theatre
Subgenre: Opera
Scoring: 9soloists GK4 2222 4331 timp 2perc hp str on stage: cl acc vl

De Bijlmer opera : [opera in 17 scènes voor zanger, zangeres, acteur, gemengd koor en orkest], 1999 / libretto: Fer Bank, Jacques Bank

Genre: Opera, musical theatre
Subgenre: Opera
Scoring: sopr-m bar actor GK4 fl(pic) sax-s(sax-b) sax-a sax-t(sax-s) h 3trp 2trb trb-b 2perc pf cb(g-b)

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