
Akhnaten Tickets
Phelim McDermott's Olivier Award-winning production of Glass's Akhnaten returns to the ENOMay not be suitable for young audiences.
Performance dates
11 March – 5 April2023
Run time 2 hours 55 minutes
Includes interval
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Tickets for Akhnaten in its return to the London Coliseum
Phelim McDermott returns to the London Coliseum with his Olivier Award-winning production of Philip Glass’s Akhnaten. Following several sell-out runs, the production is set for an extremely limited run in Spring 2023.
Philip Glass’s Akhnaten
This captivating opera pulls parts of its text from ancient hymns and the prayers and inscriptions sung in the original Hebrew, Egyptian and Akkadian. Allow the mood of the piece to take you on a journey back to the ancient world invoked by Glass’s score.
This mesmerising production tells the story of Akhnaten. A man who changed the world. He was the first Pharaoh to switch from worshipping a plethora of gods to only one: The Sun God Aten.
Akhnaten cast and creatives
Renowned countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo reprises the titular role, alongside Chrystal E. Williams as Nefertiti and Haegee Lee as Queen Tye. Keel Watson returns as Aye and Zachary James returns as the Scribe. They are joined by Benson Wilson as Horemhab and Paul Curievici as High Priest of Amon. The cast is completed by Ellie Neate, Isabelle Peters, Ella Taylor, Felicity Buckland, Sinead O’Kelly and Lauren Young as Daughters 1-6.
Karen Kamensek will conduct the Phelim McDermott production. Tom Pye is the set designer, Kevin Pollard is the costume designer and Bruno Poet is the lighting designer. Choreography comes from Sean Gandini.
Akhnaten tickets are now on sale!
The true sun god has returned to the London Coliseum. Book your opera tickets now for Philip Glass’s Akhnaten whilst availability lasts.
Content
Please be aware that this production contains some adult content which may not be suitable for young audiences.Special notes
Sung in Egyptian, Hebrew and Akkadian with no surtitles.
Recent Reviews
Great play and amazing costumes/
This work by Philip Glass is absolute masterpiece. Singers were great, as well as the conductor and the orchestra. I liked very much direction and staging. An unforgettable evening.
Impressive!
Outstanding music singing production
Simply mindblowing
A great production - visually stunning and wonderful music and singing!
The opera was great but the view was not. The reservation site said there was a clear view but didnt say a clear view of what exactly. Admittedly, these were cheap seats for this venue but I think it would be much more accurate to describe the view as limited. We could see half of the stage at best and virtually nothing of action higher up in the stage. Still glad we went though.
Superb, fantastic, uplifting, brilliant ++++ Seen this and the previous 1986 production 2x each Hoping for more!!!!
A mesmerising production, held me fascinated throughout, probably not a traditional opera lovers cup of tea?
Spoilt by far too much juggling. These became tedious in Act 11 and a bit ridiculous by Act 111. It detracted from the main protagonists and I felt that I'd missed important gestures and nuisances, by watching out for those bloody balls. The music, singing and costumes were superb!
It is great performance, excellent, marvellous
Superb production complementing the music. A spectacle with significance. Although it was 3 hours long, it was enthralling throughout (tho’ wise to have each act shorter than the last). The singing was excellent but the narrator slightly disappointing. Some of the visuals will persist in my mind for ever. Altogether a memorable evening.
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