Ahat ilī – siostra bogów / Libretto by Olga Tokarczuk - NOSPR

Aleksander Nowak’s Ahat ilī – siostra bogów [Ahat ilī – sister of the gods] (2018) opera with libretto by Olga Tokarczuk (based on her book Anna In w grobowcach świata) retells one of the oldest myths: a story of a descent/a journey to the underworld, a fight fought there and the consequences thereof. The characters are humans, gods and demons, driven by various forces, their fates fatally intertwining. The main character is, contrarily to the original Akkadian myth, not a god, but a human being struggling to find their place in a world ruled by gods, to understand the world, and to save it from gods-made doom. There will be no end of the world, but it is the human who must make the ultimate sacrifice to maintain the divine order.