Description
Akhnaten is the third work in the opera trilogy by composer Philip Glass about men who changed the world in which they lived through the power of their ideas. The theme of Akhnaten is religion. The title was derived from the Egyptian pharaoh Akhnaten, who was the first monotheist in recorded history. The fact that when he came to power he replaced the cult of many gods with a one-god religion ultimately led to his being excluded from the rulers’ lists of later pharaohs and his legacy almost disappearing from history until the late 19th century. The opera describes the rise, rule and fall of Akhenaten in a series of tableaus.
