There is a scene in this production depicting full frontal nudity. Viewer discretion is advised.
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.
This production was originally created by English National
Opera and LA Opera
In collaboration with Improbable
Production gift of the Rosalie J. Coe Weir Endowment
Fund and the Wyncote Foundation, as recommended by Frederick R. Haas
and Rafael Gomez
Additional funding from The H.M. Agnes Hsu-Tang, Ph.D. and
Oscar Tang Endowment Fund, Dominique Laffont, Andrew J. Martin-Weber, The
Walter and Leonore Annenberg Endowment Fund, American Express, and the National
Endowment for the Arts