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SEE ALSO
AVAILABLE SCORES:
Akhnaten at ChesterNovello.com
Prelude
from "Akhnaten" at ChesterNovello.com
Dance
from "Akhnaten" at ChesterNovello.com
Hymn
to the Sun from "Akhnaten" at ChesterNovello.com
"Trilogy" Sonata for Piano at MusicRoom.com
RELATED RECORDINGS:
Akhnaten on Sony Masterworks
DancePieces on Sony Masterworks
Glass Masters on Sony Masterworks
Glass Reflections on Orange Mountain Music
Philip Glass Ensemble Live in
Monterrey, Mexico on Orange Mountain Music
Obras Maestras
/ Oeuvres Majeures on Sony
Songs from the Trilogy on Sony Masterworks
Songs on Sony Classical
The Essential Philip Glass on Sony Masterworks
Violin Concerto
/ Prelude and Dance from Akhnaten / Company on Naxos
RELATED FILMS:
Looking Glass by Éric Darmon
RELATED BOOKS:
Singing Archaeology by John Richardson
CATEGORIES:
Opera
Akhnaten
An opera in three acts for orchestra, chorus and soloists (1983) 180'
Music by Philip Glass. Libretto (Egyptian, Arcadian, Hebrew, and language of the audience) by the composer in association with Shalom Goldman, Robert Israel and Richard Riddell. Vocal text drawn from original sources by Shalom Goldman.
CAST:
4S, 4Mz, Ct, T, Bar, B; STAB Chorus; (ballet in Act II); 2(pic).2(obda 1+2).2.bcl.2/
4.3.3.1/ 3 perc (tom-t, SD, BD, cym, finger cyms, t.bells, wdbl)/ syn,
cel (1 player)/ str (no violins)
COMMISSION:
Comissioned by the Württembergisch Staatstheater, Stuttgart
PREMIERE:
March 24, 1984, Württembergisch Staatstheater Stuttgart conducted by
Dennis Russell Davies
NOTES:
The third in the Glass' trilogy of operas about men who changed the world
in which they lived through the power of their ideas, "Akhnaten"'s
subject is religion. The Pharaoh Akhnaten was the first monotheist in recorded
story, and his substitution of a one-god religion for the multi-god worship
in use when he came to power was responsible for his violent overthrow.
The opera describes the rise, reign, and fall of Akhnaten in a series of
tableaus.
PUBLISHER:
Dunvagen Music Publishers