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	State Opera South Australia opera seasons: Akhnaten (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		On the death of his father, Akhnaten is crowned as the new Egyptian King in 1375BC.
		Akhnaten and his wife Nefertiti, build a city and temple, Akhetaten, in honour of Aten.
		The libretto of Glass' opera is drawn from texts written in Akhnaten's own time, and sung in their original language, with a narrator providing the audience with a translation.
	www.saopera.sa.gov.au /site/2002_akhnaten/2004_features_adelaide.htm (404 words)

	Akhnaten: The Rebel Pharaoh (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		1964 : Akhnaten: The Rebel Pharaoh (hc), Chilton, 234 pp., 64-16520
		Akhnaten: The Rebel Pharaoh is more than the story of a man and his personal imprint of history.
		It is also the story of the grandeur that was Akhnaten's Egypt, a land where men, released from the bondage of a fear-laden religion, produced a magnificent civilization.
	www.majipoor.com /nonfiction/fakhnaten.html (309 words)

	PhilipGlass.com: Recordings: Akhnaten
		It completes the trilogy of "portrait" operas I began in 1975 with Einstein on the Beach (in collaboration with Robert Wilson) and continued in 1979 with Satyagraha (whose libretto was a joint effort by me and the writer Constance de Jong, with the assistance of designer Robert Israel).
		Work on Akhnaten was hardly continuous, though, for during that same time span I wrote such fairly sizeable pieces as The Photographer and Koyaanisqatsi, as well as a number of less expansive works.
		Akhnaten, Gandhi and Einstein — three men who revolutionized the thoughts and events of their times through the power of an inner vision.
	www.philipglass.com /html/recordings/akhnaten.html (761 words)

	Akhnaten
		Akhnaten is an opera based on the life and religious convictions of the pharaoh Akhnaten (a.k.a.
		These three -- Akhenaten, Einstein and Gandhi -- were all driven by an inner vision which altered the age in which they lived, particularly Akhenaten in religion, Einstein in science and Gandhi in politics.
		Given the nature of Egyptian hieroglyphics, the absence of a vowel isn't terribly important.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ak/Akhnaten.html (359 words)

	THEATER REVIEW: Akhnaten -- Shatterproof Egyptian Glass
		Akhnaten’s modern appeal stems from our quest to understand his visionary ideas, his beliefs, and his motivations, and to interpret them for our times.
		The opera is a series of staged rituals illustrating fragments of Akhnaten’s life: his father’s funeral, his crowning, his marriage to Nefertiti and his ultimate demise at the hands of the traditionalist priests.
		In Akhnaten, being more of a choral composition, the soloists aren’t as crucial as they would be to a traditional opera, but Geoffrey Scott deserves praise for his rendering of the Pharaoh.
	www-tech.mit.edu /V120/N3/Pharaoh.3a.html (920 words)

	Richardson Review part 2, volume 2 issue 2 spring 2000
		We leave behind that which is public and recorded: in Akhnaten’s life a coronation, a plan for an eternal city and a funeral; in ours, an address, a few dates of births and weddings, and perhaps a death.
		The intertwining voices of Akhnaten and Nefertiti, counter-tenor and contralto, both occupying the same vocal range, and Tye and Nefertiti, the former of which is cast with the voice that should rightly belong to the latter (romantic leading ladies are usually sopranos).
		When Akhnaten’s torch-lit adversaries (visually, a cross between Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody and David Lynch) assume control of the temple, the ultimate adversary is revealed to be time itself as the pyramid becomes an hourglass dropping sand onto a glass-encased model of the temple.
	www.humnet.ucla.edu /echo/volume2-issue2/reviews/egypt-in-boston2.html (2456 words)

	UTD School of Arts and Humanities - Music, Myths
		Akhnaten is the third opera from Philip Glass’ Trilogy including Einstein on the Beach (the man of math) and Satyagraha (the man of peace).
		Akhnaten’s unawareness of the trouble among his kingdom becomes apparent as he sings alongside his daughter and wife (“The Family”) as angry citizens and military officials read translations from the original Amarna Letters.
		Akhnaten and his family return as ghosts (“Epilogue”) unaware of their new surroundings and unwilling to accept the ruins that were once their home.
	ah.utdallas.edu /season0405/musicmyths.htm (1851 words)

	Philip Glass: Akhnaten
		So Philip Glass' three act Akhnaten (1984), which was seen as an oddity by some at its Stuttgart premiere -- one critic called it "Requiem for an Earwig" -- or, at the very least, an unusual dish on a repertory menu, actually fits perfectly into this purview.
		Glass' Akhnaten would have fitted perfectly into this argument if he hadn't abandoned the Oedipus-Jocasta story in favor of " the heretic king" of Egypt's alone.
		No one knows if Akhnaten was assassinated, but his imposition of the worship of his one god, the Aten, on Egyptian's poytheistic society troubled them no end, and not just the priests, who had a cash cow in the rites performed for their principal deity, Amon.
	www.classical-music-review.org /reviews/Akhnaten.html (580 words)

	Walt Disney Concert Hall - Piece Detail
		Akhnaten, pharaoh of Egypt in the 14th century B.C. and the husband of Nefertiti, was the first recorded monotheist, and the subject of Akhnaten is religion.
		Act II presents scenes from Akhnaten's reign, including a love duet with Nefertiti, and the "Hymn to the Sun." Glass cast Akhnaten as a countertenor to emphasize the otherworldly individuality of the pharaoh in sound.
		In the restoration of polytheism, efforts were made to erase all trace of Akhnaten and his ideas.
	wdch.laphil.com /about/piece_detail.cfm?id=1812 (521 words)

	Demonoid.com - Philip Glass - Akhnaten - The Stuttgart State Opera Orchestra & Chorus (EAC FLAC)
		Akhnaten, Gandhi and Einstein—three men who revolutionized the thoughts and events of their times through the power of an inner vision.
		During the reign of Amenhotep III, Akhnaten's father, the Egyptian religion, characterized by a bewildering multiplicity of gods, was dominated by the priesthood of Amon, god of Thebes.
		Akhnaten, the third of Philip Glass's "portrait" operas, is based on the life of the Egyptian pharaoh Akhnaten, who ruled Egypt from 1375 RC.
	www.demonoid.com /files/details/344923 (3327 words)

	Boston’s Weekly Dig: Articles: When Countertenors Ruled Egypt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Rather than a chronological account of Akhnaten’s reign, Glass’s episodic portrait of this mysterious and powerful man emphasizes the bizarre aberration that his ideas were from those of the entire history of ancient Egypt.
		As Akhnaten’s six daughters darted across the space, alternately grasping for each other and being restrained by stoic, chanting priests in designer jeans and Conservatory hoodies, I was hypnotized.
		Akhnaten is a particularly challenging piece, not only because it’s highly nontraditional but also because the vocal text is taken directly from ancient Egyptian inscriptions, letters and the sacred Book of the Dead.
	www.weeklydig.com /articles/when_countertenors_ruled_egypt (758 words)

	Akhnaten (opera) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Akhnaten is an opera based on the life and religious convictions of the pharaoh Akhenaten (Amenhotep IV), written by the American minimalist composer Philip Glass in 1983, and first performed in 1984 by the Stuttgart Opera.
		Editorial note: the composer uses the spelling Akhnaten, while the more conventional version is Akhenaten.
		Given the nature of Egyptian hieroglyphics, the absence of a vowel is not linguistically significant.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Akhnaten_(opera) (410 words)

	Amazon.com: Glass: Akhnaten: Music: Philip Glass,Dennis Russell Davies,Stuttgart State Opera Orchestra,Angelika ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Prelude quietly sets the pulsating, quivering tone of ancient Egypt and after a narrator sets the scene for the death of Akhnaten's father, the funeral music is wildly percussive and full of brass figurations.
		Yet when Akhnaten's unfolds his concept of monotheism, his countertenor lines are paralleled with trumpet in a truly spiritual ambience.
		The death of Akhnaten as proscribed by three male soloists is echoed in the choral writing for the crowd's response.
	www.amazon.com /Glass-Akhnaten-Philip/dp/B0000E1WMP (1190 words)

	Philip Glass - Akhnaten
		Akhnaten, the third of Philip Glass's "portrait" operas, is based on the life og the Egyptian pharaoh Akhnaten, who ruled Egypt from 1375 BC to 1358 BC.
		There is a brief pause, then Akhnaten and Nefertiti resume singing while behind them is seen the funeral cortege in a later stage of its journey, this time ascending on wings of large birds to the heavenly land of Ra.
		Akhnaten revolutionized the leading religion in ancient Egypt by introducing the monotheism, that means, for him "Aton" was the only god.
	www.glasspages.org /akhnaten.html (6596 words)

	PhilipGlass.com: Compositions: Akhnaten
		The third in the 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.
		The Pharaoh Akhnaten was the first monotheist in recorded story, and his substitution of a one-god religion for the multi-god worship in use when he came to power was responsible for his violent overthrow.
		The opera describes the rise, reign, and fall of Akhnaten in a series of tableaus.
	www.philipglass.com /html/compositions/akhnaten.html (194 words)

	The Connection.org : Philip Glass and the Akhnaten Opera
		Philip Glass's opera "Akhnaten" is a "Camelot" tragedy set in Ancient Egypt: it's a musical vision-an artist's guess really-about one man's short and revolutionary adventure as Pharoah nearly 4000 years ago.
		Akhnaten was a dynastic heir who became a radical reformer.
		Bolder still, a first in the human record, Akhnaten decreed the worship of one god, maker and master of all-for which the many old gods of Egypt and their powerful priesthood had their revenge.
	www.theconnection.org /shows/2000/02/20000202_b_main.asp (244 words)

	Revelation
		Akhnaten's remains are not to be found nor those of his wife Nefertiti.
		So powerful was this link that even the ghost of Akhnaten's daughter, whether it was Maketaten or Beketaten, recognised her father in the visage of Cheiro and bowed to him in reverence.
		Dodi was to be the modern Akhnaten and Diana the modern Nefertiti.
	www.newprophecy.net /queenson.htm (9589 words)

	Song and dance man - www.theage.com.au
		The Adelaide director is in Melbourne to direct the Philip Glass opera Akhnaten, about the Egyptian pharaoh and religious reformer who ruled nearly 4000 years ago.
		Akhnaten is designed by Mary Moore, who has worked with Warren for 20 years, while the conductor, Timothy Sexton, worked with Warren on Klinghoffer and had wanted to stage Akhnaten for years.
		Akhnaten opens at the Malthouse tonight and runs until Saturday.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2003/10/14/1065917394625.html (987 words)

	Amen and Aten
		Akhnaten built a new capital to the north of Thebes and called it Akhetaten, the place where Aten rises.
		The claim of being the “first monotheist” of world hisotry was made for Akhnaten on the basis of his hymn to that deity, by Egyptologists and then turned again in booksof authors writing on religion or history in general.
		The question of whether Akhaten was the first monotheist (or even a monotheist in general) requires revision already because of the fact that Akhnaten lived not in the 14th but in the 9th century.
	www.varchive.org /ce/amenaten.htm (1247 words)

	This Month on Greater Boston Arts
		Composer Philip Glass was drawn to Egyptian ruler Akhnaten because his seventeen-year reign (which began in 1375 BC) was a brief but vivid aberration in an extremely conformist society.
		Akhnaten broke rank, declared a new god, and culture flourished under his watch.
		Glass' "Akhnaten," sung primarily in Egyptian, Biblical Hebrew, and Akkadian, is the Boston Lyric Opera's first offering of the new millennium.
	www.wgbh.org /pages/bostonarts/2000/janstories.html (363 words)

	Oedipus and Akhnaten
		In his book Oedipus and Akhnaten he claims that the myth about king Oedipus, which is set in the Greek Thebes, is really about Akhnaten.
		This type of sphinx was introduced in Egypt by Tiy, the mother of Akhnaten, the wife of Amenhotep III and the daughter of Yuya and his wife Tuya.
		In 1989 the tomb of a hitherto unknown vizier of Akhnaten was discovered.
	home-3.tiscali.nl /~meester7/engoedipus.html (1962 words)

	Act of God. Graham Phillips. Book Review. Dr Michael Magee’s Analogies and Conjectures. Askwhy! Publications. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Akhnaten could not help noticing that the only part of Egypt to escape the problems was the Land of Goshen in the east of the Nile Delta where lived most of the Israelites with their strange transcendental god.
		Evidently Akhnaten concluded that the true god was the power behind the sun and could only be shown as a solar disc with kindly rays emanating from it.
		Phillips explains away the belief that the eruption of Thera preceded the reign of Akhnaten and that the Exodus of the Israelites (if it happened at all) was after his reign.
	www.askwhy.co.uk /analogiesandconjectures/Actsofgod.html (2622 words)

	The Boston Conservatory Opera, Sanford Sylvan Director, Presents Phillip Glass's Akhnaten Feb. 3-5, 2005 @ ...
		Akhnaten will be performed Feb. 3- 5, 2005, at 8:00 p.m.
		Akhnaten completed Glass's trilogy of 'portrait' operas that began with Einstein on the Beach, and Satyagraha.
		The short-lived religious revolution of Akhnaten, a renegade pharaoh who introduced monotheism and monogamy to ancient Egypt, provides the story for Glass's avant-garde work.
	top40-charts.com /news.php?nid=11914 (365 words)

	The Amarna period
		Akhnaten founded three cities called Gem-Aten: in Egypt, in Nubia and somewhere in Asia.
		Akhnaten asked where a certain Ayab was and Mutbaal sent back a letter (Amarna letter EA 256) in which he wrote: 'He has been in the field for two months.
		It is also possible that Hadad came to Egypt during the last years of Akhnaten, because Ankhesenpaaten was also married to Akhnaten for a short time.
	home-3.tiscali.nl /~meester7/engamarna.html (2417 words)

	Fenway Views \| Welcome to Fenway Views (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Philip Glass explores the relationships between Akhnaten (King Amenhotep IV) and his family and subjects in ancient Egypt.
		Akhnaten abolishes Egyptian tradition by turning to monotheistic religion and refuses to practice polygamy in order to remain true to his wife, Nefertiti.
		The embittered priests incite the people to overthrow Akhnaten, leaving the royal family to wander the temple built in honor of their god.
	fenway-views.com /node?from=3510 (699 words)

	Tiny company does grand job with Glass' 'Akhnaten' (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.virginia.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Although the libretto is an opaque thicket of ancient Egyptian, Hebrew and a little English, "Akhnaten" does have a plot of sorts.
		It begins with the death of Akhnaten's father, Amenhotep, and Akhnaten's accession to the throne, then traces the rise and fall of the pharaoh's short-lived religious revolution.
		Taking her cue from Glass' epilogue, which fast-forwards to the modern-day ruins of Akhnaten's palace, Chang stages the whole piece in an engaging midpoint between royal past and tourist-ridden present.
	www.sfgate.com.cob-web.org:8888 /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/archive/2004/05/19/DDG5R6NB431.DTL (641 words)

	Rosicrucian Order supports Akhnaten, and Solomon & his Temple
		Cyrus H. Gordon on Akhnaten as the founder of Jewish Monotheism: gordon.html; Sigmund Freud on Akhnaten as the founder of Jewish Monotheism: moses.html.
		And Philip Glass, composer of the New Age Opera "Akhnaten", happens to be Jewish: http://www.philipglass.com/violin-naxos.html.
		Amenhotep IV {Akhnaten} sought to replace the geographical polytheism of Egypt with the divinity of universal light...
	users.cyberone.com.au /myers/rosicrucian.html (10957 words)

	The Music Show - 18 October 2003 - 18th October, 2003
		Dutch clarinettist Harry Sparnaay doesn't bother with music written by dead white males kept busy as he is with over 500 works written especially for him;
		The ABC cannot guarantee its complete accuracy because of the possibility of mishearing and occasional difficulty in identifying speakers.
		Title: Akhnaten Act 1 Scene 1, Funeral of Amenhotep III
	www.abc.net.au /rn/musicshow/stories/2003/968220.htm (107 words)

	Amazon.ca: Glassmasters: Music: Philip Glass,Dennis Russell Davies,Christopher Keene,Atlanta Symphony Orchestra & ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Akhnaten: Act II, Scene IV: 'Akhnaten's Hymn To The Aten'
		Akhnaten, opera Act 1, Scene 1: Funeral of Amenhotep III"
		Akhnaten, opera Act 2, Scene 4: Akhnaten's Hymn to the Aten
	www.amazon.ca /Glassmasters-Philip-Glass/dp/B0000029VX (437 words)

	Akhnaten as the founder of Jewish Monotheism (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.virginia.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Sigmund Freud on Akhnaten as the founder of Jewish Monotheism: moses.html.
		A god associated with a planet or star would be seen as having different names among different peoples, but being essentially the same, and therefore one had no problem visiting temples in foreign countries.
		Osman believes that Akhnaten was Moses; Redford refutes that claim, yet provides evidence Osman sees as useful for his case.
	users.cyberone.com.au.cob-web.org:8888 /myers/gordon.html (21338 words)

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