A concert performance of the opera Ahat Ilī - Sister of Gods by Alexander Nowak to the libretto of Nobel Prize winner Olga Tokarczuk will take place on 20 December 2019 at 7 p.m. at the Mediateka in Tychy as part of this year's Auksodrone festival.
Ahat Ilī – Sister of Gods is the award-winning Polish writer, Olga Tokarzcuk's, first libretto. Tokarczuk is famous for deconstructed novels, short stories and essays centered on life and death and the translucent inner core of the human soul. The commissioned artwork for the libretto, hanging above the singers and dancers, has been described as a pair of lungs, a cell, embryo, or a zygote, celebrating that transparent, yet organic shape. Constructed by sixty-five segments, each with an individual pattern, the artwork is achieving a perfect sphere; only once all pieces are placed together.
In Ahat Ilī , the gods and humans gather on a slowly rotating circular steel platform, tucked underneath the deflating zygote, whilst a projection is being made above them. The orbit, its zenith and perhaps the projected past, all acts as the intrinsic set for a modern dystopian myth, reflecting on the themes of sisterhood, ethos, environment, and consequence.
The title role of Ninszubur will be performed by Urszula Kryger. Joanna Freszel will perform as the goddess of life Inanna, Ewa Biegas as the sister of Inanna, the goddess of death Ereszkigal, and Jan Jakub Monowid as Inanna's lover, Dumuzi. Sebastian Szumski, Bartłomiej Misiuda and Szymon Kobyliński will perform as gods-fathers. They will be accompanied by the Katowice Camerata Silesia Singers' Ensemble (prepared by Anna Szostak-Myrczek) and the AUKSO Chamber Orchestra of the City of Tychy under the direction of Marek Moś.
More information at: http://www.auksodrone.com/