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Look Out, Akhnaten — Your Famous Son Is Getting An Opera Of His Own

MUSIC Posted: November 5, 2019 7:35 am

As Philip Glass’s work about the monotheist pharaoh gets a major revival at the Met, news comes that a new opera on the life of King Tutankhamun is set to premiere late next year in Cairo. The libretto is co-written by the famous archaeologist Zahi Hawass, Egypt’s former minister of antiquities, with the score by Italian composer Lino Zambone. Performances are planned to mark the opening of the Grand Egyptian Museum in Cairo. – The Art Newspaper

MUSIC Published: 11.01.19

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