Verdi and Glass both re-imagined an ancient Egypt suited to the composers’ own times. But whereas Verdi relies on the great 19th century Italian opera themes of forbidden love and the like to make the ...

The final opera in Philip Glass’s “portrait” trilogy, Akhnaten, which premiered in 1984, had its Metropolitan debut this season. (The first two in the trilogy, Einstein on the Beach and Satyagraha, ...

When he was 11, Anthony Roth Costanzo already was a working Broadway actor. He sang in his first opera when he was 13. Since graduating from Princeton and the Manhattan School of Music, he has been a ...

Philip Glass ventured to the Emory University campus for a performance of his opera Akhnaten and to receive the President's Award from the university. Glass was honored for both his prodigious musical ...

The year Philip Glass’ meditative minimalist opera “Akhnaten” had its world premiere in 1983, Ronald Reagan was president, the final episode of “M*A*S*H” aired, the first Hooters opened and no one had ...

ENO and Philip Glass have a long history, and recently McDermott – artistic director of theatre company Improbable – has become a regular part of it. But where his Perfect American couldn’t find that ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Pick Philip Glass’s portrait of a pathbreaking pharaoh returns to the Metropolitan Opera for the first time since its hit debut there in 2019 ...

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For L.A. Opera’s production of “Akhnaten,” countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo has to sing in English, ancient Egyptian, Biblical Hebrew and Akkadian for up to 10 minutes straight while sustaining many ...

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