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

Trionfo d'amore sulla magia : opera in tre atti per coro misto e soli, 1978 / musica di Jochem Slothouwer, testo di Annemarie Schlaebitz, (da "el Mayor Encanto Amor" di Calderon de la Burca), versione italiana di Umberto Gandini

Genre: Opera, musical theatre
Subgenre: Opera
Scoring: soloists 2GK4(perc)

Tamerlan (Opera) : voor groot orkest en 12 solisten / music by Kllas ten Holt; libretto Carel Alphenaar

Genre: Opera, musical theatre
Subgenre: Opera
Scoring: soloists 2fl(picc/fl-a) 2ob(eh) 2cl(cl-b) 2cl-b 2fg(cfg) 4h 3tpt 3trb tb 7perc str

De varkenshoeder : jeugd-opera in drie bedrijven, gecomponeerd 1951, uitgebreid en opnieuw geïnstrumenteerd in (...) 1959 / door Nico Schuyt, tekst: Nelly Burgdorffer

Genre: Opera, musical theatre
Subgenre: Opera
Scoring: 6soloists GK4 2(111) 0(1)00 perc pf4h str(vl vla vc) (hp cb ad lib.)

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