John Adams: Nixon in China
In February 1972, the American president Richard Nixon went to China to meet Mao Zedong. In the context of the war in Vietnam and the cold war, this encounter marked a turning point in Chinese‑American relations. John Adams, a major musical figure of the last forty years, made this event of contemporary history the subject of his first opera. Nixon in China tackles the political thaw instigated by ping-pong diplomacy, begun by the invitation of the American table tennis players by their Chinese counterparts, one year before the presidential visit. A mesmerising work in which the pulsations and repetitions typical of minimalism are combined with melodic lines of great lyricism. For its entry into the Paris Opera repertoire, this work has been entrusted to the director Valentina Carrasco, who underlines the importance and the mediating power of Chinese national sport in history.
Género: Música
Emitir: Thomas Hampson, Renée Fleming, Xiaomeng Zhang, John Matthew Myers, Joshua Bloom, Kathleen Kim, Orchestre de l’Opéra National de Paris, Gustavo Dudamel
Tripulación: Valentina Carrasco (Director), John Adams (Original Music Composer), Silvia Aymonino (Costume Design), François-René Martin (Director), Alice Goodman (Writer)
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John Adams: Nixon in China 2023
opera
minimalist opera
paris national opera
Camera Lucida Productions
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