Performing the Past: Modern Opera and Ancient Egypt

Performing the Past: Modern Opera and Ancient Egypt

A conversation with HCP Visiting Fellow Anthony Roth Costanzo and Prof Richard Parkison. 

This conversation will showcase the interpretation of ancient historical records as a source for living performative art, breaking through institutional walls. The speakers will discuss the challenges of interpreting Philip Glass’ Akhnaten and of embodying an ancient historical figure in a meaningful way for modern audiences, beyond the stereotypes that surround him and his son Tutankhamun.

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Speakers:

Anthony Roth Costanzo is a Grammy award winning countertenor and producer, who has starred in Akhnaten at the ENO, London, and the Metropolitan Opera, NY, to international acclaim. He is in Oxford as a TORCH Visiting Fellow.

Richard Bruce Parkinson is Professor of Egyptology at the University of Oxford and co-curator of the Bodleian exhibition, Tutankhamun: Excavating the Archive.

This event is part of the the Humanities Cultural Programme one of the founding stones for the future Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities.

Organised in collaboration with the Bodleian Libraries and the Griffith Institute.