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the riot of spring : for tape and orchestra / Dmitri Kourliandski

Genre: Multimedia
Subgenre: Orkest met multimedia
Bezetting: tape 3fl 3ob 3cl 3sax 4h 3trp 3trb tb 4perc str

Blauwe appel : kameropera in acht scènes, 1983/1984 / libretto: Karst Woudstra, Boudewijn Tarenskeen

Genre: Opera, muziektheater
Subgenre: Opera
Bezetting: sopr sopr-m 3ten 3bar 3perc 2pf

Dummies : -opera-, (1974) / muziek: Otto Ketting, text: Bert Schierbeek

Genre: Opera, muziektheater
Subgenre: Opera
Bezetting: sopr ten bar 2cl(2sax) cl(sax cl-b) h trp trb tb perc el.org(perc)

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

Genre: Opera, muziektheater
Subgenre: Opera
Bezetting: 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)

compositie

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

Overige auteurs:
Kourliandski, Dmitri (Componist)
Toelichting:
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