Akhnaten is the third instalment in the Glass’ trilogy of operas about men who changed the world in which they lived through the power of their ideas, Akhnaten‘s subject is religion. The Pharaoh Akhnaten was the first monotheist in recorded history. The opera describes the rise, reign, and fall of Akhnaten in a series of tableaus. This deluxe lift- off box-set contains a 16-page libretto.