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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, muziektheater
Subgenre: Opera
Bezetting: soloists GK4 tape

Halewijn : symphonisch drama in negen tafereelen, 1932-1933 / Willem Pijper

Genre: Opera, muziektheater
Subgenre: Opera
Bezetting: soloists GK5 2233 4331 timp 2perc hp man pf str

John B. : Kammeroper in zwei Akten, 1976 / Sylvia Welman

Genre: Opera, muziektheater
Subgenre: Opera
Bezetting: 7soloists fl(picc) cl(cl-b) perc pf vl(vla) vc tape

Lachesis : Kammeroper in einem Akt; Chamber opera in one act / Marijn Simons; libretto by Hermann Schneider

Genre: Opera, muziektheater
Subgenre: Opera
Bezetting: 5zang picc fl/fl-a ob/eh cl/cl-b sax-bar fg/cfg h tpt/tpt-picc trb-t trb-b 2perc hp g-eb pf/keyb 2vn vla vc db tape

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