Together with Einstein on the Beach and Satyagraha, the opera Akhnaten (1983) forms a triptych about science, politics and religion. Composer Philip Glass, mostly in collaboration with theatrical producer Robert Wilson, created a vast musico-dramatic panorama of topical subjects in an extraordinary new language of form. In Akhnaten, after the death of his father, the young pharaoh Akhenaten comes to power, with his wife Nefertiti. After his coronation, he abolishes all the old gods to introduce a new religion, to the dismay of the priests, who overthrow him.
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