Countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo brings the sexually ambiguous monarch of Philip GlasssAkhnatento the Met.
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(Glass accentuates the mystery by having the libretto sung in ancient languages.)
Costanzo is a fast-talking enthusiast who has kept the engines of his career perpetually revved.
My parents were both psychologists, Costanzo says, and thats such a psychologically tortured story!
Wed drive out to New Jersey together for rehearsals and talk about sexual abuse and trauma.
(Costanzo doesnt so much drop names as scatter them like seeds.)
Singing Glass, though, has taught him the virtues of slowness.
And as you do it more, you find ways to make that seem natural.
When the stakes are high, you go into Philip Glass mode.
Akhnatenpremieres November 8 at the Metropolitan Opera.
