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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

Opera 45 : voor 4 soli, koor en 7 instrumentalisten, 1985 / op een libretto van Wim Jurg, Rob van den Berg

Genre: Opera, muziektheater
Subgenre: Opera
Bezetting: sopr alt bar bas GK ob(eh) cl sax-t perc synth ham.org cb

Agnete : Opera in 1 acte / Israel Olman

Genre: Opera, muziektheater
Subgenre: Opera

Am Wannsee : Kammeroper, 1986 / Libretto: Louis Ferron, Deutsche Fassung des Librettos von Heinz Schneeweiss, Geert van Keulen

Genre: Opera, muziektheater
Subgenre: Opera
Bezetting: sopr-m bar cl(cl-b cl-cb) h 2perc synth 2vl vla vc 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

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