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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

Oikos : schoolopera in twee bedrijven, 1980 / muziek: Andries Hubers, libretto : Bab Westerveld

Genre: Opera, muziektheater
Subgenre: Opera
Bezetting: 4soloists 2GK4 3121 0310 timp 2perc (g-b ad lib.) pf str Orff-instr electronics

Persians : an a cappella-opera, 1994 / libretto: Janine Brogt, Boudewijn Tarenskeen

Genre: Opera, muziektheater
Subgenre: Opera
Bezetting: sopr-2bar-solo 3sopr sopr-m ten bar GK4

Axel : opera in drie akten / Reinbert de Leeuw - Harry Mulisch - Jan van Vlijmen, libretto naar Villiers de l'Isle Adam

Genre: Opera, muziektheater
Subgenre: Opera
Bezetting: soloists 3354 4332 3Wag-tb timp perc hp str Fernorch.: 2fl ob 3cl 2fg

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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

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