Name:
METROPOLITAN OPERA – AKHNATEN – GLASS
Date:
November 24, 2019
Time:
12:55 PM - 5:00 PM EST
Website:
http://www.paramountvt.org
Event Description:
ENCORE PERFORMANCE
Run time: 3 hrs 55 mins includes 2 intermissions
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.
