‘Akhnaten’ is the third in the composer Philip Glass’ trilogy of operas about men who changed the world in which they lived through the power of their ideas. The subject on ‘Akhnaten’ is religion. Its title was derived from the Egyptian pharaoh Akhnaten, who was the first monotheist in recorded story. The opera describes the rise, reign, and fall of Akhnaten in a series of tableaus. Comes on a 3LP set on 180 gram vinyl.