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An Evening Song To She Who Exists By My Name : for strings and low drum / Dmitri Kourliandski; based on a text by Daniil Kharms

Genre: Orkest
Subgenre: Strijkorkest
Bezetting: drum str

De droom : opera, Hilversum 1962-1963 / Ton de Leeuw

Genre: Opera, muziektheater
Subgenre: Opera
Bezetting: sopr a-mezzo bar GK4 3222 2220 timp 2perc mar hp str dancers

Het zwarte blondje : opera-buffa in 1 acte (3 taferelen), naar een oud-Italiaans gegeven / muziek: Jurriaan Andriessen, tekst: Jan Timmerman

Genre: Opera, muziektheater
Subgenre: Opera
Bezetting: sopr bar pf cemb

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

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

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