ahat ilī – Sister of Gods by Olga Tokarczuk and Aleksander Nowak: From the Novel to the Operatic Libretto

Aleksander Nowak’s (*1979) third opera, ahat ilī – Sister of Gods, premiered in 2018, sets a libretto by Polish Nobel Prize winner Olga Tokarczuk, based on her own novel. This marriage of literature and opera, reinforced by the unique situation in which the author of the text which served as an inspiration and of the libretto is one and the same person, suggests that the work could be defined as a Literaturoper. My paper aims to analyse this composition in terms of genre as well as to represent the unique path of its content’s transformation from a literary into an operatic work, along with an analysis of the verbal component presented from the librettological perspective.