Name: Akhnaten
Start: 2023-03-11T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2023-04-05T00:00:00.000Z
Location: London Coliseum

Organization

Conductor

Karen Kamensek

Stage director

Phelim McDermott

Set designer

Tom Pye

Costume designer

Kevin Pollard

Lighting designer

Bruno Poet

Choreographer

Sean Gandini

Countertenor

Anthony Roth Costanzo

Akhnaten

Contralto

Chrystal E Williams

Neferttiti

Baritone

Benson Wilson

Horemhab

Bass

Keel Watson

Tenor

Paul Curievici

High Priest Amon

Spoken

Zachary James

Scribe

Soprano

Haegee Lee

Queen Tye

Ella Taylor

3. Daughter

Mezzo-soprano

Felicity Buckland

4. Daughter

Isabelle Peters

2. Daughter

Ellie Neate

1. Daughter

Video designer

Jolyon Loy

Lauren Young

6. Daughter

Amy Holyland

5. Daughter

English National Opera

LA Opera

hebraisk

London

United Kingdom

London Coliseum

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Private

Approved

Akhnaten Glass

Director Phelim McDermott introduces his new production of Philip Glass's Akhnaten at ENO. 

Akhnaten | 7 - 18 March 2016 | London Coliseum | Tickets from £12: https://goo.gl/kQpXPX

Divine ruler of Egypt, husband to Nefertiti, father of a new religion. Akhnaten decrees that the sun god rules supreme, and the old gods must be banished from their temples. But instead, his people turn upon their Pharaoh as a traitor. Akhnaten must die. Will his new faith live on? 

Watching Akhnaten is a thought-provoking, absorbing experience. The last of Glass's trilogy of 'portrait' operas, it explores the life and religious convictions of the Egyptian pharaoh. This hypnotically mesmerising work uses texts drawn from ancient hymns, prayers, letters and inscriptions sung in their original Egyptian, Hebrew and Akkadian. Its UK premiere was at ENO in 1985, and it has not been seen in London for almost 30 years.

Countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo sings the title role, while Glass specialist Karen Kamensek conducts. 

Akhnaten | 7 - 18 March 2016 | London Coliseum | Tickets from £12: https://goo.gl/kQpXPX

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Phelim McDermott’s Olivier Award-winning production of Philip Glass’s Akhnaten returns to the ENO, following sell-out runs at the London Coliseum and the Met Opera.

Akhnaten is a mesmerising work whose text draws on ancient hymns, prayers and inscriptions sung in their original Egyptian, Hebrew and Akkadian. The opera’s unique mood transports audiences to this ancient world through music (conducted by the returning Karen Kamensek) that combines Glass’s characteristic minimalist voice with stylised movement and choreographed juggling to visualise the rhythms of his score.

A 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.

Award-winning countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo returns to the title role, alongside Chrystal E. 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.

The true sun god returns to the London Coliseum – book your opera tickets now for Philip Glass’s Akhnaten.

English

Akhnaten by Glass, Fra (2023/2023), Instrueret af Phelim McDermott,, Dirigent Karen Kamensek, London Coliseum, London, United Kingdom

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