Musicology Annotation << Back Opera work by «Wake» by Klaas de Vries as a mirror of processes and tendencies of contemporary musical art Elizaveta V. Sanicheva The article goes on the Dutch composer Klaas de Vries, his opera work «Wake» and the situation on contemporary music scene in the Netherlands as part of international music arena and many different infl uences coming from across musical Europe. Keywords: Klaas de Vries; Rotterdam School of Composition; the Netherlands; opera in the Netherlands. Contacts: E-mail: sanicheva@gmail.com Pp. 49-53.