Overview
Character Name
Akhnaten
Show
Gender
Male
Playing Age
Young Adult, Adult
Role Size
Lead
Dancing
Non Dancer
Voice
Countertenor
Vocal Range
High Note: E5
Low Note: E4
Vocal Technique
Operatic
Time & Place
Ancient Egypt, Thebes, 1350-1336 BC
Analysis
In this opera we follow Akhnaten’s journey through life. He begins as a newly crowned pharaoh, and soon progresses to be a man capable of destroying a temple, as well as a loving husband and a doting father, and eventually the victim of a massacre. He returns at the end of
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