When Dalia Stasevska heard opera music for the first time, it was a moment of profound self-revelation. She was 13, growing ...

Countertenor John Holiday stars as Akhnaten in LA Opera’s spectacular revival of the acclaimed Philip Glass opera, February 28 through March 22 - and I can’t wait to see it.

Music Connection has been in publication since 1977, and in that time, we’ve made a concerted effort to cover all musical genres and make everyone feel welcome. MC is for everyone! That said, we must ...

Anthony Roth Costanzo re-created the demanding title role of Philip Glass' monumental opera Akhnaten at the Met to universal acclaim, and now makes his Bay Area recital debut. With a childhood ...

“His sun hath risen’ – Akhnaten returns!” The English National Opera’s now famous production of Philip Glass’s opera has been here, there, and everywhere since its first appearance in 2016, and has ...

It’s happened again, defying all operatic conventions – Philip Glass’ three hour meditative opera about the life of a little-known pharaoh has sold out for its latest run at ENO. That it’s impossible ...

This style can be hugely effective for mood-setting background music in films - his film compositions have three times been nominated for Academy Awards - but in opera, the music plays a more ...

One of the strangest manifestations of Western culture’s fascination with Ancient Egypt is Philip Glass’s 1984 opera Akhnaten. Its subject – sort of – is the pharaoh who, in the 14th century BCE, ...