Akhnaten - Akhnaten and Nefertiti
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 มี.ค. 2013
- An orchestral transition prepares the scene, which is devoted entirely to a duet between Akhnaten and Nefertiti.
With the introduction of the solo trombone, the Scribe begins reciting a poem. The first time we hear the poem it is as if addressed to a god.
With the entrance of the strings, the poem is heard again, this time spoken as an exchange between two lovers. During this second reading, Akhnaten and Nefertiti appear. There follows the duet between the two, not alone together. The vocal text is the same poem sung in Egyptian.
At the end of the duet the music returns to the orchestra alone. 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.
Text: Recited by the Scribe and then sung in Egyptian by Akhnaten and Nefertiti (love poem found in a royal mummy of the Armarna period, from Journal of Egyptian Archæology, translated by Sir Alan Gardiner)
I added the lyrics in Egyptian with translations, taken from Philip Glass's web site (www.glasspages.org/akhnaten.ht.... I had to place them at the top left since the bottom center already had some subtitles.
Cast (This was the Feb 23, 2013 performance.):
Akhnaten: Nicholas Tamagna
Queen Tye: Olivia Savage
Nefertiti: Sarah Ballman
All rights belong to the Jacobs School of Music, Indiana University.
See also:
Hymn: • Akhnaten - Hymn
The Temple: • Akhnaten - The Temple
The Window of Appearances: • Akhnaten - The Window ... - เพลง
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God, this is the most beautiful love scene ever, absolutely perfect. Send it space, to let the universe hear the beauty, the beauty.
Lovely. They had six daughters. There is a wonderful stela...their children are crawling about them and it portrays something that has always fascinated me.. a profound sense of love, so distant in time, memorialized.
Wonderful in one word! Greetings from Turkey...
This is my favorite part of this opera, but I still find it morbid that the lyrics are taken from one side of a coffin.
The text reads like an erotic poem but it is about preservation of the essence of the dead when the funerary rites are observed.
A song of pure and crystal clear love
One of the best duets in the history of opera.
Moreta1redstar - name the others.
You must be joking
Noo there are better ones. Mimi and Rodolfo's, Butterfly and Pinkerton's but this one is beautiful in its own way
I vote for Otello and Desdemona at the end of Act I.
Breathtaking
Stranger things S4 Ep7 was masterpiece with this song
Definitively, it fits so well
Many people are still searching lol
This is really beautiful. Thank you for posting.
I just saw the new MET production yesterday, and I must say this "amateur" one is still head and shoulders above. In this particular duetto, Tamagna and Ballman achieve such an amazing chemistry and manage to create a fascinating sense of intimacy that's completely lacking in McDermott's version. And the orchestra is also so carefully balanced and actually MAKING MUSIC along with the singers, not just playing the notes underneath. An amazing feat.
I too saw the Met production, just Saturday, relayed to Europe in my local cinema. Previously I knew the work through the recording conducted by Russell and the few video extracts online. I found the Met production musically less exciting and visually ultra distracting.
Going to see it in the cinema Wednesday evening. Sorry to hear it is a disappointment. Reviews in the Times and Post were positive.
@@joemancini2988 It's just an opinion. There's still much to be liked in McDermott's production, if his style is up your alley. It didn't really work for me because I wasn't sold on the juggling thing, and generally found the visuals way too distracting too. Also, I felt the music could have been more nuanced, but it could be just me being too attached to the Dennis Russell recording. I've only seen the MET version once.
Dion Baillargeon I have to say I got on board with McDermott. The “brownian motion” created by the jugglers created a visual analog to the endless patterns and repetitions in the music. My final take on this is that this will become the “definitive” realization, certainly Glass feels that way. I may not consider Glass a great composer, but he is a great opera composer, the most consequential American opera composer, I dare say.
@@joemancini2988 I beg to differ. The most consequential American opera composer would be John Adams, IMHO.
too marvelous for words !!
Thank you for posting this.
lucky enough to see the ENO production of this last week!
What I like mostly is the idea of Contratenor singing with Contralto, and actually Contratenor sings with higher pitches than Contralto!.
Bernabé García Sánchez LOL!
Stunning ...
The hottest love song ever!
Beautiful!!!!
Amazingly beautiful voices. Thank you for sharing this performance.
Meraviglioso
i play the CD at least once a week, i check out the score once a year. i only lack the video perfromance as shown on public television years ago. i guess i am not the only one enthralled by this music.
The Met has a new production of it 2029 season
@@Ettoredipugnar I think you mean 2019😄
swiftlyrunStHeLion what is a “CD” can i stream the entire performance there? i’m looking everywhere!
Ettoredipugnar no
@@theOstenHugo The original recording from the Stuttgart Opera House. I still believe it's the best performance of this opera out there, even better than the MET staging from 2019. The Indianapolis staging earns a close second spot.
I,ve seen this opera in a big video screen. I’m from Mexico and this opera is o e of my favourite. It leave me a mark inside me. Marvellous: The contratenor. The music EVERYTHING I LOVE IT
Thank you for uploading your videos on Glass' Akhnaten, but you wouldn't have the rest of the performance would you?
Beautuifu
amazing!!!
Absolutamente profundo.
tellement beau: je voudrais vraiment qu'on le diffuse à mes funérailles, écoutez la différence entre la première et la deuxième version
Philippe Selvais c’est superb
Excellent and dreamlike performance. But the Scribe was slightly disappointing. And he messed up his lines in the end.
I would love to have seen this production it looks and sounded so good I saw the original ENO production in London in 1985 and last night saw the new ENO production and loved it as much as before
❤️❤️
I've just watched this for the first time (although knowing the piece pretty well). Am I alone in finding the moment when the "cortege" is carried away by the bird unexpectedly moving?
No, same for me too 😆 many blessings
The song
I saw a VHS recording of a 1980s German theater production and have been searching ever since to find a replacement copy for the lost tape. Does anyone happen to know where one may be available? Thanks in advance.
Boorse Erin what is VHS? can u stream the entire performance there? do you have the web address for VHS stream?! pls help i need the entire production ASAP
@@theOstenHugo erring on the side of the possibility that you're not just trolling me, VHS is an acronym for a technology called Vertical Helical Scan. This is a physical media product where magnetic tape was used to record images and audio. The 'casette' was decoded through a VCR that sent analog video and L, R audio signal to the television. Like today with digital media there were various formats. US used NTSC I think France used SECAM, some countries used PAL. There was a competing product called Betamax which provided better quality but VHS won out in the marketplace, I believe due to it's lower price point. TLDR: VHS is a physical tape. not online not digital.
Boorse Erin ohhh i was hoping for digital download. ohkay thank you for your in-depth explanation...
Boorse Erin i went to the Indiana Univ link but it redirected me to a page that doesn’t play the production in full. did you ever find the opera in full anywhere online
@@theOstenHugo I left my original comment in hope that someone reading through the comments would have knowledge of a source for the German production. I have searched on and off as well as posted in forums and have never been able to find a copy. May you have better luck than I.
At minute 2:19 the lyric is different that what is being read. I like what is being stated, but it is not written. Where is the link to the original lyric? Thank you for these posts.
Gee, and the met didn't do Carl Orff. (chuckle, chuckle)
Who is the orchestra performing?
IU Concert Orchestra
after this music i need a sip of Bellini or I will suffocate
Spill the Bellini and proceed as stated.
vphima ::
I think it would be difficult to find this kind of super-natural, ethereal music in Bellini ; opera has so much to offer ... whatever simulates your natural senses ... this music elevates anyone hearing.
Bellini: rum-te-tum-te-tum.....
Lo siento en el alma.Conozco la historia de Egipto.
Si respetas la historia no podrías.escuchar.UNA..sola ópera...
Can someone please explain what Akhnaten's mom is doing here? 🤨
There is an implied 'love triangle' - it was not unusual for monarchs of the era to take their children as concubines.
I wanna see this about Baptists with banjos. Trust me... Glass could do it.
Haven't you heard BAPANJO?
This blows the met production clear out of the water. This is simple and this is what Glass wanted. The met production was extremely distracting visually and I couldn't get into it
This one gave me such bad gas problems.
A wonderful performance!
I wish some of the libretto had been in the Coptic language of Egypt, the language of Egyptian Christian liturgy. This would have been especially appropriate for the parts of the opera referring to the influence of Akhnaten's beliefs on Abrahamic religions. Instead, the creators of the opera used languages not indigenous to the country for this purpose. In doing so, they chose not to honor Egyptian Christians by giving them a voice.
It is because there were no Christians in Egypt--nor any other nation--at this point in history, so using Coptic Egyptian in the libretto would have been anachronistic and bizarre. You have posted this comment repeatedly without apparently understanding the subject matter of the work: It's about _ancient_ Egypt. Here's a good synopsis: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akhnaten_(opera)
akhenaten was one of the first democrats, that rushed the old gods in egypt and founded the sun as the spring of all live.
the old priests were very angry about that. because of that they detroyed most of the images of echnaton and nofretete,
akhenaten and nefertiti. the jews, that went out of egypt some years later, took the idea of a "one and only god" out from
their slavery in egypt into their own promised land israel. insofar akhenaten was the founder of the monotheism. a lot of the struggle in our nowaday comes out of the several names - for one creator, one god, one idea. people are strange...
+roland bayer thanks for the information. i will read more.
+roland bayer There is no historical evidence for the Jewish enslavement in Egypt nor that they were present in Egypt any where near the time of Akhenaten. Furthermore, Akhenaten's unpopular imposition of monotheism on his feudal subjects does not sound anything like democracy to me.
+roland bayer Jews were never enslaved in Egypt. And for Akknaten I doubt he was democratic, he has a fanatic of a new religion. He was more of a dictator and the Eghyptian did well in getting rid of his memory
Still, he was a chill dude to hang out with over a beer!
Zeppolino100 and boy could he drink you under the table, huh?! lol 😂
Is it just me, or is this too self-conscious and maybe a bit pretentious, the staging I mean? It probably appeals to a certain viewer, but for me it grates.
This opera's selective history is so hilariously dumbed down. Historically, we know that Akhnaten made his wife Nefertiti "Co-King", and she portrayed herself publicly as a male under the name Smenkhkare, and Akhnaten himself portrayed himself in public imagery as having a dual gender. Do we get any of that interesting historical intrigue in this vacuous opera other than the role being played as a contra-alto? No. Do you think maybe they might, in this opera, talk about selecting their new identities and shaping their public personae? It makes you wonder how stupid opera goers are. Do they care about the historical events that this is based on? Do they even know that history was way more interesting than this minimalist version? Later Akhnaten elevated two of his own daughters to status of "royal wife" and had children with them. Nothing about that in this opera. Instead we see this stupid scene in the garden where they wax empty, meaningless poetry about their eternal love. Um, hello. There's a lot more to their lives than this empty posing, and swimming in ostinato arpeggios.
Dude, this is the worst take I ever seen about Akhnaten opera ever
@@qnebra There’s almost no conversation! With all the intrigue and political posturing in their lives, they should say more than five words to one another!
@@jesuspectre9883 Thing is, nothing from trilogy of historical figures was completly accurate. It wasn't chronicle of historic events, but semiabstract presentation of ideas represented by Gandhi, Einstein and Akhnaten.
@@qnebra I wonder if the leads had trouble memorizing their seven lines! Hahaha.
@@jesuspectre9883 Propably not so much. Luckily they have much more lines in entire opera. Also, opera is much more critical about Akhnaten than you think. It presents him as revolutionary and fanatic, who was destroyed by his own hubris.
If this is opera then I am the Archbishop of Canterbury. What boring, pretentious drivel. No emotion, no color, no melody (oh, that! Heaven forfend!). This insanity is nothing more than chant. How does the Met spend millions of dollars to mount a production that has about as much chance of gaining a place in the repertory as I do of going to the moon on my next vacation.
Are you sure you know what a Melody is?
@@mikrokosmiko1 well then, nice to meet you, Archbishop of Canterbury
This duet is between King Tuts parents. For too long people have only known the boy King, King Tut and not his fascinating parents. Let us be curious and find out more.
Dogshit music, Emperor's New Clothes nonsense, WTF is wrong with critics, audiences, etc.
@937ab Lmao, what the fuck? Go listen to Pachelbel then, snobs. Akhnaten is a masterpiece.
@Aidan Cillian McMurray Content-free, Emperor's New Clothes crap.
And i would wonder whats wrong with you- if i gave one tiny damn about your boring, meaningless opinion🥱