Weeping Opera is a composition and performance by Greta Štiormer that reinterprets lines from and fills gaps in the Epic of Gilgamesh, one of humanity’s oldest surviving literary works. First written on clay tablets in ancient Mesopotamia, most of the epic poem is missing. Štiormer’s musical practice delves into queer grief and community-building, using Gilgamesh’s incomplete format as a scaffold to perform its hermeneutics and interpret them anew through the lens of homoerotic experience.

Part of Re-Imagine Europe – New Perspectives for Action. Co-funded by the European Union.

Premiere: Rupert, 2024 (LT)
This work is available for touring.
Further enquiries: info@rupert.lt