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Dmitri Kourliandski's opera Octavia. Trepanation, staged by Boris Yukhananov, premiered in 2017 in Amsterdam at the Holland Festival. The libretto is based on Lev Trotsky's essay about Vladimir Lenin (1924), and on fragments of a play attributed to Seneca about the Roman emperor Nero. The stage is dominated by an enormous head of Lenin, and centaur skeletons. It is a complex, multivalent work, in which the theme of tyranny is projected onto the contemporary world. The Russian premiere, for which the Electrotheatre has announced an audition for volunteers to participate as soldiers in a Terracotta army, will take place on the stage of the Stanislavsky Electrotheatre on October 17 to 19 as part of the Territory festival. Dmitri Kourliandski speaks about his dissection of the revolutionary song “Varshavyanka,” and about the trepanation of tyranny.

We continue our publication of interviews with the composers who worked on Boris Yukhananov's Orphic Games. Punk-macrame project. Here Kristina Matvienko chats with Dmitri Kourlianski.

The opera Galileo is nominated in three categories

Performances of an opera by Boris Yukhananov and Dmitri Kourliandski in Italy

Muziekgebouw, Amsterdam, June 16

Octavia. Trepanation, an opera by Boris Yukhananov and Dmitri Kourliandski is the first example of collaboration between a Russian theatre and a major western festival, in this case, the Holland Festival. Performances will be held on the stage of the Muziekgebouw in Amsterdam.