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Memento Mori

Echna­ton (Akh­na­ten)

Philip Glass
Premiere
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It was in 2017 that the production of Satyagraha by the Komische Oper Berlin premiered to great acclaim. Now we have another chapter in the opera trilogy by the minimal-music pioneer Philip Glass, each work focussed on an individual who changed the world: this time, the Egyptian pharaoh Akhenaten. Directing is Barrie Kosky, whose Moses and Aaron and now Akhenaten show us how contemporary music can take mythic figures and make them strikingly vivid and tangibly real.
Philip Glass
An opera in three acts [1984]
Libretto by Philip Glass in association with Shalom Goldman, Robert Israel, Richard Riddell, and Jerome Robbins
©1983 Dunvagen Music Publishers Inc.
Used by permission.
Premier on March 25, 2025
Recommended from grade 9
English, Egyptian, Aramaic, Akkadian, and German

Next dates and cast

Schillertheater – Großer Saal
Bismarckstraße 110
10625 Berlin
Sat
15. Mar 2025
19:00
Premiere
Fri
21. Mar 2025
19:00
Sun
23. Mar 2025
18:00
Fri
28. Mar 2025
19:00
Sat
5. Apr 2025
19:30
Fri
11. Apr 2025
19:00
Fri
18. Apr 2025
19:30
Sun
20. Apr 2025
19:00
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