| Year of Composition: | 2012 |
| Duration: | 120 |
| Instrumentation: | 2S-2Mez-2T-Bar-2B-satb-dsaa-3333-4331-5perc-cel-hrp-hpd-str (+fl-tp-drum-pf on the stage) |
Opera in two acts, three scenes, with texts in Lithuanian, German, French and Italian (and episodes in other languages).
An improvisation on Rainer Maria Rilke's Die Weise von Liebe und Tod des Cornets Christoph Rilke.
Libretto by Onutė Narbutaitė, with quotations of Rainer Maria Rilke, Oskar Kokoschka, Oscar V. de L. Milosz, Georg Trakl, Paul Celan, Jacques Prévert, Charles Baudelaire, Johann Wolfgang Goethe, Homer, and other texts.
Commissioned by the Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theatre.
