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Akhnaten is the third in the composer Philip Glass’ trilogy of operas
about men who changed the world in which they lived through the
power of their ideas. Akhnaten‘s subject is religion. Its title was derived
from the Egyptian pharaoh Akhnaten, who was the first monotheist in
recorded story. His substitution of a one-god religion for the multi-god
worship when he came to power ultimately resulted in his exclusion
from lists of rulers compiled by later pharaohs, and his legacy became
all but lost to history until the late 19th century. The opera describes the
rise, reign, and fall of Akhnaten in a series of tableaus.
