Akhnaten: Trailer
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- Опубликовано: 2 окт 2024
- Philip Glass’s masterpiece of ancient Egypt has its Met premiere November 8 and runs through December 7, in a mesmerizing new production by Phelim McDermott. Anthony Roth Costanzo stars in the title role, and Karen Kamensek conducts. 2019-20 season.
It was the most gorgeous production ever. I almost died during Hymn. More beautifully sang than the recorded version.
YES my only wish is for a album of this recording
Do you mean, "More beautifully sung?" I'm not buying it.
I have the same feeling! Hymn in this production is everything!
The hymn leaves me in tears every single time. I was thrilled when the cast recording won the best opera recording Grammy this year. The entire production is a feast for the eyes, ears, heart, mind and soul. No other opera has ever affected me this way before.🎵
Carlos the cast recording won this year’s Grammy award for best opera recording. It’s glorious and so much better than the old Stuttgart Opera recording made in 1985. This recording lives and breathes the music.🎵
Saw this via the live broadcast and it was amazing! An experience I will treasure for the rest of my life.
Me too, in a cinema in my hometown. Truly amazing!!
My favorite opera of all time! It’s a musical, spiritual and extremely visceral experience. I’ve wept quarts of tears every time I’ve seen it (Met on Demand and Met Live HD), and now I’m going to see it live at the Met at the end of the month. Talk about my dream come true!!!
Truly hope they produce a Blu-ray of this opera
Gorgeous backgrounds, Anthony looks like he was born for this role
He now owns it.
Traveled to NYC just to attend the opening-night performance. Spectacular production. Back home, will go to both HD broadcasts--live and encore. I don't expect to ever tire of it. Please, please release this treasure on blu-ray.
I hope someone at the Met is still being paid to read this: please upload more excerpts of Akhnaten to RUclips and use the ad revenue to put some food on the chrous and orchestra's tables during their furlough. I want to see it again and share it, and as much as I hate Google's ad tracking, I'd suffer through it to turn people on to Akhnaten before you stage it again.
Seeing this performance at the Met was a great and unforgettable joy
Just call up Phil and thank him: 212-254-5707
We saw it too - unforgettable. Once in a lifetime. However, the temperature in the Met was insanely hot…
God this looks beautiful, I just bought tickets 🎟 ❤️❤️❤️❤️🎭
The most breathtaking production of anything that I've ever seen. Have now seen it multiple times, including live at the opera house (swoon), every Fathom HD broadcast, and all of the pandemic TV broadcasts and livestreams. Thank you for this miracle, Phelim McDermott.
Just came back from seeing the HD performance from the Met. Glorious!
I love glass, but I couldn't enjoy this. The first time a juggler dropped the ball, I was feeling sorry for the guy. He did it just as the first scene came to and end, so he didn't get the cover of any distractions of something else happening. By the fourth time, which was before the end of the next scene,, I was just feeling anxious for these guys who were probably terrified of exactly this happening to them. It was just a stressful experience for me.
I felt like it was the very same person that kept on dropping the ball. Perhaps it wasn't his/her day? Sick or something is what came to mind.
Listen to what you're saying. There was nothing to focus on other than the jugglers. That's not an opera. In a normal opera of substance, there are fully drawn characters with emotions, and lush dialogue, with objectives, with activities and predicaments and thematic arguments. This is a lampoon of traditional opera, so it decides to remove foundational elements like character, activity, emotion, and story structure, and suffers miserably as a result. It's vacuous.
Todd Bell I suspect danger is part of the aesthetic experience. If a tightrope walker walks across a room with feet firmly on the floor, it’s meaningless.
I can't juggle, so I can forgive them for dropping a ball or two. It's still a cool visual.
As a lover of Egyptian mythology I may have to go see this in my local Cinemark theatre when they broadcast it. It looks intriguing.
Is awesome!!!, one of the best works of Philip Glass, he wrote it when his wife died.
Looks like a Grace Jones video!
I watched a stream, this was spectacular and in every sense of the word. The music, great of course, was performed better that the recorded version, but the performances and the actors on stage, and the stages themselves! To me it evoked the kind of spectacle, reverence and awe usually reserved for the church, after all this is about monotheism, no? They did Philip Glass justice and some!
To see this in person would have been something else.
Oh wow....I soooo badly want to see this live.
Just saw HD yesterday--absolutely blown away by ART on display. Music, orchestra, voice, dance, juggling, light colour, performers of all kinds, at their best. Felt as if I'd attended a ritual.
How can i find this opera on
internet?
@@gabrielmartins3835 it just became part of the Met on Demand through their app!
Thank you, Met, for streaming this opera: it’s the best I’ve ever heard and watched! The whole production is amazing, I could see it over and over again! After, watching it, I’ve heard Glass’s music like 4 times between Sunday and Tuesday. This really changed my life and how to get closer to opera. I hope one day I could watch it on the Met!
Thank you, Glass, for composing such a masterpiece❤️
Greetings from Costa Rica
I saw this in the movie theaters and was extremely moving
One the most beautiful things I have seen in my life
I wish I had waited for the HD DVD vs the trouble of getting into the Met and the crazy box office line.
My mate you can buy tickets for the Met online.
The very first time I heard this opera almost 35 years ago changed my point of view about the world of the opera. Outstanding composition, brilliant performance of a masterpiece. Thanks, maestro Philip Glass!!!!
Where can I watch this? Is it available for purchase Blu Ray or stream? I want to watch it so badly
www.metopera.org/user-information/nightly-met-opera-streams/ on Saturday, November 14 for free
You can also try this... ruclips.net/video/jSAOrULT-F4/видео.html
This was the finest production of anything I've seen in years. So moving!!
caught this on PBS and was entranced, didn't plan on watching a 2 hour opera but i did
Imagine seeing this live on acid
Gorgeous and enthralling. Grand experience.
When you realize how similar these flute arpeggios are to the song Single Ladies, you will never unhear it.
corhydron111 nope. Train your ear
You're the only person who realizes this entire production is a farce.
Jesu Spectre says the nitwit with photoshopped cloud images. Expert on farce, eh? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@paillette2010 My farcical images both mock Christian idolatry and make money at the same time. For smart people, my images have a clear thematic argument, which is more than this opera has. And yes, I'm an expert in farce. My vides have literally millions of hits. This has 100k.
Only listened to the production on radio and I’m already looking for a video….. absolutely fantastic, just hearing….
Saw it yesterday, blew my mind completely! Loved it.
i come here from VOX, you should thank them
Wow that's going to be amazing.
what I would GIVE to see this
Does anybody know, whether/when there will be a DVD of the performance?
I absolutely loved this opera! There was so much happening, yet there was such simplicity about it, as well. I'm looking forward to seeing it again as an encore performance in February 2020.
It will also be featured as the first Met Radio Broadcast tomorrow (December 7, 2019) over the Toll Brothers International Radio network. (Check your local listings for details and start time.) Enjoy!
An incredible production, rare thing at the Met. In the class of Parsifal and Elektra.
Amazingly Beautiful
Fabulous performance & costumes
“A euphonious symphonic sonic masterpiece”
Just saw it today on HD Simulcast only to hear from friends who went to an evening performance that the simulcast was a matinee performance altered from the full frontal nude version being shown at the Met. Nothing critical but it goes to show how far we still have to go if this form of art needs to be scrutinized for the masses! Sad day. Dazzling show!
yes a pee pee really makes a difference
wow
Stunning from first seconds
Because what we really go to the opera for is juggling.
THIS
i was pretty sceptical of it,but having been to the last show it worked just fine...it was all worked to be timed with the music so it was often quite visualy arresting, sometimes left field choices just work
Matthew Janney opus opera, neutre. Work. Theatre, poetry, music, costumes, painting, acrobatics, dance, & now, juggling. OPERA.
Don't worry, there's also an abundance of singing. (But don't tell the great Italian opera composers you have a problem with circus-y stage business...😉)
If I've never watch an opera before and don't understand the appeal, is it possible I would enjoy this? The comments here are stunning.
EDIT: This might answer my question: ruclips.net/video/-yRFCiTj_Fw/видео.html
Ha! This one has a very strong, very distinct flavor. I'm still new to opera (this was number four, watched last night) but I absolutely loved this. I'm already into this strange, abstract ~experience~ kind of thing in other forms and I'd listened to the music before, which is repetitive and almost droning but in a comforting way, and loved that too. So it depends on you!
My first opera was Rusalka. I'd recommend that one. It's basically The Little Mermaid and it has a famous song you may have heard before. It was very easy to follow.
@@leafissimile I'm absolutely not into abstract, like at all, so that might answer my question. Thanks! :)
I’ve watched this trailer like 10 times. I cannot wait for the encore of the Live in HD!!!
The staging looks a bit weird (Nefertiti with blue hair?). Still, I would love to see this.
I think every scene was made to look as though it was from a painting. The show as a whole is much more symbolic rather than literal.
I get it, but since the opera is so monumental -especially the narrator's monologues- with many references to the Atem and Akhnaten's time and his eventual downfall and descent into oblivion, it is more powerful when presented with accurate sets.
@@davidbastardo4154 Hehe, I do see what you mean. I think though that since each bit of "text" is rather indirect, almost as though the words are in the background of the action itself, I wonder if the indirect, almost dreamlike setting seems to match the feel of the show itself? I myself also tend to be one more for "accurate" settings, too. But I think given the style of the show itself, an interpretive staging seems to match it.
I'm all for creative stagings, like Cheréau's work in Wagner's Ring. But the narrator says things like "Live the Horus", or gives specific directions in modern Egypt during the epilogue. I see some guys with Victorian hats and other weird things that barely resemble ancient Egypt. Still, beautiful colors and lightning. Certainly worth watching.
theres something to be said tho of the fact that more literal stages of this opera have been done as its an incredibly obvious choice
i saw the show live and they put plenty of little details and inspirations in there that were fantastic and intuative, hell theres a whole aspect of the staging of the opening which is done in levels treated like vigniets from the book of the dead replete with chorus members being animal headed gods viewed in profile along the top of the scene
they certainly took a creative direction but the whole thing does read like they tried to work some real bits of ancient egypt into the architecture of the whole thing, they just opted to be more subtle about it, which can be nice and as an ancient egypt nerd i was incredibly happy with it
also the blue hair seems an obvious nod to the Nefertiti crown
Saw this on Great Performances in PBS
Stunning production, beautiful music.
Oh my God that looks so cool!!!!
Sorry for the uneducated question, but will this be an opera, ballet or completely different genre?
It's a musical that has disguised itself as an opera.
It’s a minimalist opera
This an spectacular opera, but is not strange you question because this looks spectacular, seems like they hired professional acrobats addittionally to great singers. This opera by itself is surprisingly unique. Philip Glass is minimalist, but it goes so far to the minimalistic. This looks like a superb installation. I really hope to see it. I have followed Mr Ph Glass works since I was 12 years, and I am still delighted with his work since then.
I've been waiting for tonight's streaming of this opera for MONTHS. I'm planning on watching this multiple times in the next 24 hours.
This opera is pure theatre. Pure, total theatre. Great beauty. I was enthralled. Thank you, Met, for streaming this.
Theatre has substance. Theatre has dialogue, which alludes to that which is bigger than us all. Theatre has dramatic structure and resolution. Theatre has suspense and emotion and universal themes that we all recognize.
It's so exciting too! They say Philip Glass is in the audience!
Kurt Schwarz he saw a few of them I’m pretty sure
You can tell he's a very wealthy Pharaoh by the amount of wrist watches he has 0:40
Magical
Wundervoll! Beeindruckend! Welterschütternd! Eine Oper die man nicht missen darf 🥺
160 EAST. 103 sTReeT
LEXiNGTON
NEW YORK CiTY
Nyc MUSiQ
Amazing Every Word You Just Said Was Wrong
Long overdue staging! #AMERICANMASTERS 🎶💖✨
Can't wait to see
The production seems as glorious as the music in-
Spectacular
Extraterrestrial
Just saw in the theater! Asounding and hypnotic! Such a cast! And I'm not big on Glass but this is a masterwork!
Whats the name of the bass (not Zachary), the one who wears suit and top hat?
I used to like to go to Met performances, now that they have decided to make a political showing with their vaccine requirement, I couldn't care less if they go bankrupt.
What about Akhnaten being Moses?
There's no proof of that
@@F_antomas It would be really inconvenient Wouldn't be? I find that theory exciting, some kind of promising fundamental to explain, to develop a better western civilization.
@@argentik82 Not sure what you mean by that ... I did my research long time ago about every pharaoh . Sometimes they say, the pharaoh who fought Moses is King Ramses II or Tuthmoses 3 . There's no concrete evidence . The funny part, there's no Moses or Joseph name or any biblical name anywhere in the walls of the pyramids or any burial . We may never know .
Not sure why but it does not look ancient Egyptian to me.
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I listened to the soundtrack it sounded beautiful 😍
I wish some of the libretto had been in the Coptic language of Egypt, the language of Egyptian Christian liturgy. This would have been especially appropriate for the parts of the opera referring to the influence of Akhnaten's beliefs on Abrahamic religions. Instead, the creators of the opera used languages not indigenous to the country for this purpose. In doing so, they chose not to honor Egyptian Christians by giving them a voice.
So majestic performance!!! Love it!
Yet another example modern culture/art world is in serious crisis.
Why do you say that? Is it just the production design? I saw this production a couple of years ago and thought it was stunning, and utterly mesmerizing. I plan to see it again in the theater this July.
LOL .. If you look at the statue of Akhnaten, you would know he was black man, Not white ...This is ridiculous
just finished watching this on PBS and coming from someone who doesn't usually go for opera I do dig Philip Glass music, my mamamia being Italian grew up on this stuff and she had a bust of Nefertiti in the house as far back as I can remember and that's possibly why I wear a scarab of turquoise around my neck, so I compromised and watched it, I was mesmerized, the music was soulfully moving, the costumes were hypnotic and the cast was brilliant, so all in all I enjoyed it thoroughly, however, there was only one thing I didn't understand, why was there an umbrella being used as a prop?
Breathtaking and haunting,
More shows please!!!!
Simplemente hermoso.
Is there anyway to watch this on demand? Dying to see it.
The Met has a streaming service so yes.
@@RayIveySeriously i wrote that comment several years ago. I have seen this twice over already.
Absolutely fabulous !
Illuminatus!
WOW!!
Jacked that tempo up a bit high, don’t you think? Was it for dramatic effect at a high point of the performance? I hope they don’t speed up the whole show. Also, doesn’t making the whole performance into a high-speed circus act distract from the spiritual aspect of the play?
Yes, certainly, the tempo is more rapid, compared with the record.
Bravo Luca: I have the 1987 CD and I have listened to it about 100 times. It is my favorite Glass opera and I usually listen to it from start to finish on Sunday mornings when I’m doing work.
Believe me, it wasn't high speed.
I hope I hope I hope this gets a dvd release. I mean I'll be going on Saturday to see the live broadcast, but still, I'd like to see this more than once...
Is going to be incredible, I am jealous, enjoy it !!
How INANE is the juggling. NO, NO, NO. What inane frippery is this?
Incredible trailer, I want more!!
Anyone know where this soundtrack can be purchased?
Its on Spotify
Full on crap.
I'm a simple man, I see a movie about Egypt having a white pharaoh, I dont watch
South Park
I saw this and I enjoyed it... My partner knew nothing about anything and saw it with me and said to me after 'we' re gunna get our money back right? '... After a few days I understand this isn't an opera for someone that knows nothing about it.
I didn't even go and I want my $$$ back. What a dreadful-looking production. Typical contemporary garbage opera design.
@@Mythologos I hope you now feel better for putting that out in the world.
This looks gorgeous but I wish more Black and African performers were involved.
Egyptians are Arabic first of all, and opera being a traditionally western European art form coincides with there being few Arabic opera singers. To invalidate a gorgeous performance on account of an ethnic disparity they didn't create is immature.
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This was awful.
Can you explain why ?
@Bravo Luca . Not true at all. I love all great music. I just don't think Glass is a legitimate composer. I loved Dialogue of the Carmelites this year. And pretty much all the productions at the Met. I have over a 3000 cds. Hardly a collection for someone who hates everything.
Poor music, costumes that do not fit Egyptian era, naked singer on stage for good 10 min without any warning at the time of ticket purchase ( do not bring your kids there). Disgusting overall
Winter Winter what are you rambling about?
He was a bare-chested male, set in what would be a hot climate. I wouldn't describe that as a naked person. You can't go to the beach with your children, ever, if you have a problem with that.
The performing arts exist in such a rigid straight jacket that any opinion other than the current orthodoxy is going to be met with venom, intolerance, ignorance and hate. I feel badly for the young singer today who, besides having to deal with the demands of being a musician, must also sacrifice their personal morality, if they have it, in order to work. I am curious as to just how far this trend with extend in the future. Unsimulated intercourse for Lady MacBeth? A real orgy in Rigoletto? Maybe a live abortion in Madame Butterfly? But, of course!! After all, we don't want to be like those evil Neanderthalish creatures, the Republicans.
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But like, does anyone like opera?
Yes