Is there an afterlife? Does our soul live on after death? Is there love that lasts beyond the grave? Although no one knows the answer, many people would answer yes, but even those who do not believe in this somehow hope that our lives do not end with our physical departure. It would be nice to know that when we leave this earthly world here, somewhere else we can meet our loved ones who have passed away and there we can wait for those whom it pained us to leave here. This hope is the subject of György Kurtág's new opera, which he began writing in 2023 to a libretto by Christoph Hein based on the letters and writings of Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742-1799).