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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

Symposion : opera in twee akten, opus 33, 1982-1989, revisie 1994 / op een libretto van Gerrit Komrij, Peter Schat

Genre: Opera, muziektheater
Subgenre: Opera
Bezetting: soloists GK4 3343 3sax 4332 4perc 3mar 2hp str dancers

De Askoning in de Schönberg : kinderopera / Chiel Meijering, op tekst van Lotte van Dijck

Genre: Opera, muziektheater
Subgenre: Opera
Bezetting: fl cl fg trb tb pf 2vl vc

Lustrumspel A-Z : Music for student theatre for mixed choir and orchestra / Leo Smit

Genre: Opera, muziektheater
Subgenre: Opera
Bezetting: GK4 pf

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