Costanzo went on to repeat the role at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. LAO CEO Christopher Koelsch saw the Akhnaten production in London and decided on the spot to bring it to Los Angeles. That said, Costanzo is a fan of Philip Glass’ music and was delighted to be selected by the English National Opera (ENO) for Akhnaten after appearing in an ENO production of Purcell’s Indian Queen. He found Glass’ music tough to memorize because of the repetition and the constant onslaught of sound, and said it required endurance and conditioning to sustain for over three hours. His early achievements included performing at the Academy of Music in Philadelphia as the Shepard Boy in Tosca with Luciano Pavarotti, acting in a Merchant Ivory film, and as a young adult, winning the Grand Final at the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions and taking first prize at Operalia.Īs for Akhnaten, Costanzo described playing the Egyptian pharaoh as the most vocally and mentally demanding role he has ever sung. In the spring of 2021 Costanzo will return to LAO in a ground-breaking chamber concert called Veils of Desire.Ĭostanzo’s recent success builds upon a professional career that started at age 11 on Broadway. Renowned countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo first came to the attention of LA Opera (LAO) patrons with his extraordinary performance in the lead role as the Egyptian Boy King in Philip Glass’ Akhnaten in 2016.
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