12/07/19 – Akhnaten – THE MET RETURNS! – 1PM

The Metropolitan Opera

Akhnaten
Philip Glass

• ESTIMATED RUN TIME:  3 HRS 30 MINS, 2 intermissions
• SUNG IN  VARIOUS
• photo credit:   Paola Kudacki/ Met Opera

Director Phelim McDermott tackles another one of Philip Glass’s masterpieces, following the now-legendary Met staging of Satyagraha. Star countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo is the title pharaoh, the revolutionary ruler who transformed ancient Egypt, with the striking mezzo-soprano J’Nai Bridges in her Met debut as his wife, Nefertiti. To match the opera’s hypnotic, ritualistic music, McDermott has created an arresting vision that includes a virtuosic company of acrobats and jugglers. Karen Kamensek conducts in her Met debut.

You can download performance programs, read the opera synopsis and watch performance videos at: https://www.metopera.org/Season/Radio/Saturday-Matinee-Broadcasts/

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