Akhnaten Complete Opera in HD from Indiana University's Jacobs School of Music

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[Mark W.]

Christmas came early!!!

This is wonderful. Just listened to the Overture for a while and it sounds great!!!

[Stuart Moulder]

Wow! My favorite Glass Opera by a mile, but I have never SEEN it, only listened to it countless times. Thank you!!!

[Steve Schindler]

An awesome performance considering these are all college students (actually you can watch another performance with a different Akhnaten- see right side of page). Bravo! I like this production better than the performance I saw in Chicago years ago. Here's a blast from the past- NY Times review of Akhnaten from 1984, LOL: http://www.nytimes.com/1984/11/06/arts/city-opera-akhnaten-story-of-egyptian-ruler.html

[petercampbell.livejournal.com]

Steve, they don't write reviews like that any more (thank goodness). I saw that same 84 production, but performed in London, and it was astounding. How conservative are the tastes of some opera critics?

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Thanks a lot for this link ! This is such a great opera, I listened to it so many times on CD...

This opera should already be a classic, as much as Einstein - which I will be able to see in Paris, in January 14 - and Satyagraha are.

And this staging is fine, as are the singers and the orchestra.

Why is the Met still waiting to perform Akhnaten ?