componist
Dmitri Kourliandski, born 1976 in Moscow, graduated from the Moscow Conservatory and completed post-graduate course led by Leonid Bobylev. His compositions won prizes at the international composers competitions, including the ...
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Genre:
Onbekend
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Genre:
Opera, muziektheater
Subgenre:
Opera
Genre:
Opera, muziektheater
Subgenre:
Opera
Bezetting:
soloists GK4 MK2 fl fl(pic) ob ob(eh) 2cl fg fg(cfg) 2h trp trp(trp-p) trb-t trb-b tb 5timp cel(pf, el. pf) 8perc str(12.10.8.6.4.) erhu-solo
Genre:
Opera, muziektheater
Subgenre:
Opera
Bezetting:
recit 13soloists GK4 5rec 4duduk crumhorn 4440 musette 5sax mouth org 0221 2perc man banjo g pf cemb cel guiro hp 3vl 2vla vc cb
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
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