Denis & Katya is an English-language chamber opera in two acts by the British composer Philip Venables, based on the real-life stories of Russian teenage truants Denis Muravyov and Katya Viasova.
[2] The couple ended up getting into a fire fight with Russian Special Forces and eventually died.
The opera's form is modeled after a montage, with snippets of media talking about the incident along with fake news reports.
[1] The libretto was created in collaboration with writer and director Ted Huffman[4] and was formed from interviews with those who had witnessed the events.
Material was also fictionalized based on media reports and private messages between the composer and the librettist.