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maps of non-existent cities. moscow (2 insights) : for 1, 2 or 3 performers / Dmitri Kourliandski

Genre: Kamermuziek
Subgenre: Gemengd ensemble (2-12 spelers)

St. Louis Blues : opera in 4 acts (version in English) / Chiel Meijering; libretto Paul Binnerts

Genre: Opera, muziektheater
Subgenre: Opera
Bezetting: 3sopr 4ten 2010 2sax 1121 perc el.g g-b pf

Dorian Gray : opera in two acts / revised version, Hans Kox

Genre: Opera, muziektheater
Subgenre: Opera
Bezetting: soloists 2220 2211 timp perc hp str on stage: pf

Thyeste : drame lyrique en 4 actes, 2002/03 / texte: Hugo Claus, Jan van Vlijmen

Genre: Opera, muziektheater
Subgenre: Opera
Bezetting: 8soloists GK2 1121 1110 hp man g cymb 2perc 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