There’s no overstating the reverence in which the cinema world holds Russia’s Andrei Tarkovsky. No fewer than three of his films—Andrei Rublev, Mirror, and Stalker—appeared in Sight & Sound’s 2012 poll of the 100 greatest films of all time, and that’s just for starters. Dimitra Trypani’s new “sound performance” Andrei: A Requiem in Eight Scenes is advertised as a “singular, contemporary funeral liturgy for the great filmmaker.” The libretto, by Pantelis Boukalas, intercuts the German text of the Lutheran Requiem Mass with fragments of dialogue drawn from Tarkovsky’s seven feature films. The 19-member cast—functions unspecified—is supported by a nine-piece music ensemble. We’re a long way from Euripides. —Matthew Gurewitsch