![]() ![]() The true sun god returns to the London Coliseum – book your opera tickets now for Philip Glass’s Akhnaten.Ĭo-production with LA Opera. This production of Akhnaten was originally created by LA Opera, Improbable, and English National Opera, where it premiered, winning the 2017 Olivier Award. Akhnaten is one of Glass’s three large-scale operas based on a big idea, in this case monotheism, following Einstein on the Beach, which dealt with new notions of time and space, and Satyagraha, which explored the spiritual and political revelation of non-violence. ![]() ![]() Williams as Nefertiti, Haegee Lee as Queen Tye, Keel Watson returning to the role of Aye and Zachary James returning to the role of Scribe. Akhnaten is an opera in three acts based on the life and religious convictions of the Egyptian pharaoh Akhenaten (Amenhotep IV), written by the American. The opera’s unique mood transports audiences to this ancient world through Glass’s music (conducted by the returning Karen Kamensek) that combines his characteristic minimalist voice with stylised movement and choreographed juggling to visualise the rhythms of his score.Ī mesmerising spectacle, Akhnaten tells the story of one of the world’s most influential figures – the Pharaoh Akhnaten, the first Pharaoh to switch from worshipping a pantheon of gods to just one: the Sun.Īward-winning countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo returns to the title role, alongside Chrystal E. Phelim McDermott’s Olivier Award-winning production of Philip Glass’s Akhnaten returns to the ENO, following sell-out runs at the London Coliseum.Īkhnaten is a mesmerising work whose text draws on ancient hymns, prayers and inscriptions sung in their original Egyptian, Hebrew and Akkadian. LA Opera: Amenhotep III (Scribe) in Akhnaten (2016, debut) Terry in Breaking the Waves (2021, LAO On Now). Akhnaten Originally created by English National Opera and LA Opera in collaboration with Improbable Leave your homes, my people.
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