Tri sestry (opera)

Tri sestry
Opera by Péter Eötvös
The composer, photo by Gáspár Stekovics, 2018
Translation	Three Sisters
Librettist	Péter Eötvös Claus H. Henneberg
Language	Russian
Based on	Chekhov's Three Sisters
Premiere	1998 (1998) Opéra National de Lyon

Tri sestry (Three Sisters) is a 1998 opera by Péter Eötvös to a Russian libretto by Eötvös and Claus H. Henneberg based on Anton Chekhov's play Three Sisters. It was the composer's first large-scale opera. The premiere at the Opéra National de Lyon, directed by Ushio Amagatsu, was conducted by Kent Nagano, who had commissioned the work. The production was then also shown in Paris, Brussels, and at the Wiener Festwochen festival in 2002. It became an opera played at several European opera houses including the Vienna State Opera in 2016 and the Oper Frankfurt in 2018.