Hailed as “one of the finest countertenors of his generation” and “among the opera world’s fastest-rising stars”, countertenor John Holiday stars as Akhnaten in LA Opera’s spectacular revival of the ...

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 ...

“Of course, entering fully naked in Akhnaten was very nerve-racking,” says Anthony Roth Costanzo when I ask about his most terrifying performance moment. As one of the opera world’s leading ...

“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 ...

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, ...

The opera doesn’t exactly invite the audience in, as it’s sung in a variety of mostly biblical and pre-biblical languages, with no translations provided, but with a cumbersome English narration that ...

Phelim McDermott’s monumental production of Philip Glass’ opera about the brief reign and mysterious death of the androgynous pharaoh has returned, and it feels strangely modern and troubling.