TLI Presents: Letters to a Young Poet

Rainer Maria Rilke’s nine letters to aspiring poet Franz Kappus are a clarion call to artists everywhere. Maurice Ravel’s single, masterful string quartet combines with Rilke’s letters in a unique union of music and text. The production reimagines the lost letters of Franz Kappus, the young poet, completing this famous correspondence in a new concert-theater work translated by Damion Searls and reimagined as a dramatic dialogue by Bill Barclay.