MR (Marina and Rainer)

MR (Marina and Rainer) is a chamber opera in one act (5 scenes) by the Russian composer Nikolai Korndorf (1947–2001).

The libretto by Yuri Lourié is in Russian, German, Ancient Greek and Japanese).

The opera consists of five scenes: Three pantomime actors symbolizing the illness and fate as well as the poets’ relations in a real life.

This is a moving story told in letters between two great poets, the Russian Marina Tsvetaeva and the Austrian Rainer Maria Rilke.

She was ready to come and meet him in real life, but when her last letter to him was written, Rilke was already dead.