Film

Metropolitan Opera Live: Akhnaten

Director
Phelim McDermott
Certificate
12A
Running Time
201 mins

Star countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo is the title pharaoh, the revolutionary ruler who transformed ancient Egypt, with mezzo-soprano J’Nai Bridges in her Met debut as his wife, Nefertiti, in Phelim McDermott’s Olivier Award-winning production of Philip Glass‘s three-act Egyptian opera from 1983.

Karen Kamensek conducts in her Met debut.

By robin askew, Friday, Oct 25 2019

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