MET Live: Akhnaten

Showings

Studio Theater Sat, Nov 23, 2019 12:55 PM
INFORMATION
Rating:Unrated
Run Time:3hr 21min
Genre:Broadcast
Category:Live Broadcasts
CAST/CREW
Cast:Disella Larusdottir
J'Nai Bridges
Anthony Roth Costanzo
Aaron Blake
Conductor:Karen Kamensek

Description

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