Musicology Annotation << Back Opera work «A King, Riding» by Klaas de Vries as a mirror of processes and tendencies of contemporary musical art Elizaveta V. Sanicheva The article goes in the opera work «A King, Riding» the Dutch composer Klaas de Vries – a prominent fi gure in modern music of the Netherlands, one of founders of Rotterdam composer school. «A King, Riding» – a noticeable milestone in a career of the gifted composer. This work summed up creative search of Klaas de Vries of the 1990th years and planned ways to the future. Keywords: Klaas de Vries, Rotterdam School of Composition, the Netherlands, opera in the Netherlands. Contacts: E-mail: sanicheva@gmail.com Pp. 27-30.