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Whats not to enjoy?
pharaoh Amenhotep IV, who rebaptized himself to proclaim allegiance solely to the supreme god Aten.
Scholars have extrapolated theories about androgyny andgenetic mutations.
So a generation later, McDermott ups the ante, making sure Akhnatens body evolves before our eyes.
If theres a political or social agenda at work here, its buried in decor.
The result is a beguiling meditation on surface.
Conductor Karen Kamensek keeps the sound warm and the layered pulsations regular but not rigid.
Glass began as a confrontational composer: His music was loud, insistent, and defiantly not going anywhere.
But he soon evolved into a composer of lush, bright weaves of orchestration and slow-moving swells.
Throughout the trilogy, he indulges in a lot of historical selectivity for the sake of his polished style.
Its a trick with rapidly diminishing returns.
One must distinguish between naive and deliberate Camp, she wrote.
Pure Camp is always naive.
Camp which knows itself to be Camp (camping) is usually less satisfying.
Akhnatenis at the Metropolitan Opera through December 7.
