related works
maps of non-existent cities. paris : for accordion and contrabass clarinet / Dmitri Kourliandski
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Mixed ensemble (2-12 players)
Scoring:
acc cl-cb
Genre:
Opera, musical theatre
Subgenre:
Opera
Scoring:
sopr ten bar bas-bar MK3 2232 2110 perc hp man pf(cel) 2vl vla vc cb
Amorys : Chamber opera in one act / music: Nico Richter; libretto: Hendrik Lindt
Genre:
Opera, musical theatre
Subgenre:
Opera
Scoring:
sopr ten bar bas GK 1011 1000 perc pf 4vl 2vla vc cb dancers
Solvej : kameropera in een akte en zeven scènes, 1990 / libretto van Monic Jansen, Jan Guichelaar
Genre:
Opera, musical theatre
Subgenre:
Opera
Scoring:
2sopr sopr-m ten bar bas 2recit GK4 fl trb 2perc vl vc hp tape
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