gerelateerde werken

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

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

I Will Come Back : a chamber opera / Robert Groslot

Genre: Opera, muziektheater
Subgenre: Opera
Bezetting: Mezzo soprano, Baritone, fl, ob, cl, ba, hn, harp, piano/celesta/synth, db, choir SATB

Ontstaan in grote nood : opera in 5 scenes, 1994 / libretto: Jo Willems, Gerard Ammerlaan

Genre: Opera, muziektheater
Subgenre: Opera
Bezetting: 2sopr sopr-m ten bar GK5 6464 4sax 2531 5perc g(el.g) acc(pf) str

Frau Helga von Stavern : Musikdrama in drei Aufzügen, (nach einer friesischen Legende) / Text und Musik von Jan van Gilse

Genre: Opera, muziektheater
Subgenre: Opera
Bezetting: soloists GK4 3333 4331 timp 3perc hp 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

Auteur(s):
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