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.