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Glass' Akhnaten at ENO: an utterly absorbing visual and aural experience

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“conductor Karen Kamensek weaves everything into a wonderful, ever shifting tapestry of sound”
Reviewed at The London Coliseum, London on 4 March 2016
Glass, Akhnaten
Karen Kamensek, Conductor
Phelim McDermott, Director
Tom Pye, Set Designer
Kevin Pollard, Costume Designer
Anthony Roth Costanzo, Akhnaten
Emma Carrington, Nefertiti
Rebecca Bottone, Queen Tye
Colin Judson, High Priest of Amon
James Cleverton, Horemhab
Clive Bayley, Aye
Zachary James, Scribe
English National Opera Orchestra
English National Opera Chorus
Bruno Poet, Lighting Designer
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