componist

Kourliandski, Dmitri

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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чувствовать (to feel) / Dmitri Kourliandski

Genre: Onbekend

De naam van de maan : jeugdopera in 2 akten, 1988 / libretto: Annie M.G. Schmidt [en] Flip van Duyn, Kees Olthuis

Genre: Opera, muziektheater
Subgenre: Opera
Bezetting: 5soloists JeK 2221 1210 timp 2perc pf str

De Grens (Chamber Opera - short version) : for soprano, mezzo-soprano, bass clarinet, accordion, percussion, violin and contrabass / Jan-Peter de Graaff; libretto by Yuri Robbers

Genre: Opera, muziektheater
Subgenre: Opera
Bezetting: 2zang cl-b acc perc vn db

Emilia Galotti : Oper in einem Aufzug, opus 77 / Marijn Simons

Genre: Opera, muziektheater
Subgenre: Opera
Bezetting: 2fl 2ob 2cl 2fg 2h 2trp slag acc str (6.6.4.3.2)

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