related works

Partially restored landscapes : String quartet Nº 4 / Dmitri Kourliandski

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: String quartet (2 violins, viola, cello)
Scoring: 2vn vla vc

Mandolino : opera, 2006 / Ron Ford

Genre: Opera, musical theatre
Subgenre: Opera
Scoring: (R. Kromhout)

Jules : scenische madrigalen, 1988 / kameropera op tekst van Sicco Heyligers, Daan Manneke

Genre: Opera, musical theatre
Subgenre: Opera
Scoring: alt bar bas GK4 fl cl cl-b acc org vl cb

De grens (full version) : Chamber opera in two scenes / Jan-Peter de Graaff, libretto Yuri Robbers

Genre: Opera, musical theatre
Subgenre: Opera
Scoring: zang cl-b acc perc vn db

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