Nixon in China

Nixon in China / John Adams.

John Adams's groundbreaking work vividly brings to life President Nixon's 1972 visit to communist China. Peter Sellars's Met production, based on his 1987 world-premiere staging, features choreography by Mark Morris and stars James Maddalena as Nixon, Robert Brubaker as Chairman Mao,...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Adams, John, 1947- (Composer, Conductor)
Corporate Author: Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.) (Performer)
Other Authors: Kim, Kathleen (Performer), Kelly, Janis, 1954- (Performer), Brubaker, Robert, 1963- (Performer), Braun, Russell, 1968- (Performer), Maddalena, James (Performer), Sellars, Peter (Director)
Format: Video
Language:English
French
German
Portuguese
Spanish
Published: [New York, New York] : [Metropolitan Opera], [2011]
Subjects:
Operas.
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Table of Contents:
  • Opening credits and introduction by Thomas Hampson
  • Introduction
  • Soldiers of heaven hold the sky
  • The people are the heroes now
  • Your flight was smooth, I hope?
  • News, news, news, news
  • The rats begin to chew the sheets
  • I can't talk very well
  • You've said that there's a certain well-known tree
  • Founders come first
  • The world to come has come
  • We no longer need Confucius
  • Like the Ming Tombs
  • The night is young
  • Gam bei! Gam bei!
  • Ladies and gentlemen
  • Mr. Premier, distinguished guests
  • Thomas Hampson interview with James Maddalena and Janis Kelly
  • Thomas Hampson interview with Peter Sellars
  • Thomas Hampson interview with Winston Lord and Adrianne Lobel
  • Thomas Hampson interview with John Adams
  • I don't daydream and don't look back
  • Look down, look down
  • This little elephant in glass
  • Look down, look down
  • Come, come see the pigs
  • This is prophetic!
  • At last the weather's warming up
  • Young as we are
  • Oh what a day I thought I'd die!
  • Whip! Whip! Whip! Whip!
  • Thank God you came
  • Ballet pas de deux
  • Flesh rebels
  • I have my brief
  • I am the wife of Mao Tse-tung
  • Thomas Hampson interview with Russell Braun and Richard Paul Fink
  • Some men you cannot satisfy
  • Hit it, boys
  • And to what end?
  • Sitting around the radio
  • When I woke up
  • I can keep still
  • Peking watches the stars
  • You won at poker
  • I am old and cannot sleep forever
  • Bows and closing credits.

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