Correction: Saw NYCOpera premiere of AKHNATEN in 1983. Glass wrote a great score for THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER in a brilliant production by Richard Foreman. His SATYGRAHA has pages of brilliance. His failures include The Met Columbus THE VOYAGE and his presumptuous disembowlment of Walt Disney in his LAOpera commission. At least The Met didn't update AKNAHTEN to downtown Cairo in our time.
Thank you for sharing that - seeing that now! I've noticed that Stuttgart is highlighted in multiple places as the first production. Was the NYCO a full production? I need to read up on why it isn't included!
The NYCity Opera was the first major American Opera Company to stage Glass. It was a profoundly moving musical triumph. The production was rough but they recorded it as well. I invited several friends and we all cheered the curtain calls.
Correction: Saw NYCOpera premiere of AKHNATEN in 1983. Glass wrote a great score for THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER in a brilliant production by Richard Foreman. His SATYGRAHA has pages of brilliance. His failures include The Met Columbus THE VOYAGE and his presumptuous disembowlment of Walt Disney in his LAOpera commission. At least The Met didn't update AKNAHTEN to downtown Cairo in our time.
Thank you for sharing that - seeing that now! I've noticed that Stuttgart is highlighted in multiple places as the first production. Was the NYCO a full production? I need to read up on why it isn't included!
The NYCity Opera was the first major American Opera Company to stage Glass. It was a profoundly moving musical triumph. The production was rough but they recorded it as well. I invited several friends and we all cheered the curtain calls.
Loved and miss City Opera!
It still exists kind of w Bryant Park opera concerts this summer.
I think The Met hates the City Opera so much, they may have deleted their history from their PR Firm or any hint of being upstaged.
sorry, but Akhnaten definitely had its world premiere in Stuttgart 1984
https://web.archive.org/web/20050825230120/http://www.glasspages.org/akhnaten.html
Amato Opera was kinda fun too.