The Metropolitan Opera: Akhnaten (Live)
Director: Phelim McDermott
Actors: Karen Kamensek, Dísella Lárusdóttir, J'Nai Bridges
Release Date: Saturday 23rd November 2019
Genre(s): Drama
Running time: 270 minutes
Director Phelim McDermott tackles another one of Philip Glass’s modern masterpieces, with star countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo as the revolutionary title ruler who transformed ancient Egypt—in cinemas November 23. To match the opera’s hypnotic, ritualistic music, McDermott offers an arresting vision that includes a virtuosic company of acrobats and jugglers. Karen Kamensek conducts. This live cinema transmission is part of the Met’s award-winning Live in HD series, bringing opera to more than 2,200 theaters in more than 70 countries worldwide.
