Alain Aubineau

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.

During an evening, men and women talk about love, life and death. One of them catches a moth and explains to the others the tragic fate of this insect. Everyone recognizes himself in the little animal.