Akhnaten leads trio of highly successful performances.

Her Majesty’s Theatre, Adelaide

August 19-23, 2014

It seems hard to believe that a decade has passed since the initial presentation of Philip Glass’ revolutionary minimalist opera Einstein on the Beach was staged at the warehouse-like headquarters of the State Opera of South Australia corralling the formidable talents of choreographer Leigh Warren and the now Artistic director of SOSA, Tim Sexton. They would go on to have further success in presenting two of Glass’ stageworks, Akhnaten and Satyagraha and from these earliest of days, it was always planned that all three operas eventually would be presented as a trilogy. Although it has taken a decade to achieve this monumental task, the long wait has been worth it, for Sexton and Warren have created an operatic trilogy that is not only a world first, but a production more than capable of holding its own at any serious international arts festival.

Not only have these two further deconstructed opera in its traditional sense from the composer’s initial production and staging ideas, they have achieved a unique synthesis of opera and dance in bringing together Glass’ three revolutionary titular heroes...