‘Gilgamesh,’ said the renowned German poet Rainer Maria Rilke in 1916, ‘is stupendous’. The great Babylonian epic inspired Rilke so much that he enthusiastically repeated the story to everyone he met.
'Gilgamesh: the Opera' was commissioned by the Assyrian Arts Institute; it runs March 28 and 29 at California’s Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts. Gilgamesh is not only the world’s oldest epic, ...
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