{"id":79918,"date":"2019-02-12T14:50:23","date_gmt":"2019-02-12T13:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/02\/12\/behold-the-naked-pharaoh-singing-philip-glasss-akhnaten\/"},"modified":"2019-02-12T14:50:23","modified_gmt":"2019-02-12T13:50:23","slug":"behold-the-naked-pharaoh-singing-philip-glasss-akhnaten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=79918","title":{"rendered":"Behold, the naked Pharaoh: singing Philip Glass&#039;s Akhnaten"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You need more than a good voice to sing the countertenor role of the sun-worshipping Egyptian leader. But it\u2019s changed my life\u2018Picture the audience naked.\u201d The popular wisdom for overcoming stage fright was turned on its head the first time I was unveiled \u2013 body waxed, head shaved, and completely nude \u2013 in front of thousands of fully clothed opera-goers at the London Coliseum, in 2016. It was the premiere of a monumental new production of Philip Glass\u2019s Akhnaten by Phelim McDermott, for English National Opera. When Phelim asked if I would enter naked, in a slow-motion sequence that lasts over four minutes, I asked him why. Related: Behind the scenes of Philip Glass&#8217;s Akhnaten at ENO \u2013 in pictures Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2019\/feb\/12\/singing-philip-glass-akhnaten-anthony-roth-costanzo-naked-pharoah\" target=\"_blank\">Behold, the naked Pharaoh: singing Philip Glass&#039;s Akhnaten<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You need more than a good voice to sing the countertenor role of the sun-worshipping Egyptian leader. But it\u2019s changed my life\u2018Picture the audience naked.\u201d The popular wisdom for overcoming stage fright was turned on its head the first time I was unveiled \u2013 body waxed, head shaved, and completely [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=79918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79918\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}