John Adams: Nixon in China (2023)

ALL 04/16/2023 (en) Music 165 Min
  • Release
    04/16/2023
  • Production
    Camera Lucida Productions
  • Rotten tomato
    40%
  • Original title
    John Adams: Nixon in China
  • Original language
    en
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
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Overview

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.

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  1. Thomas Hampson

    Richard Nixon

  2. Renée Fleming

    Pat Nixon

  3. Xiaomeng Zhang

    Chou En-Lai

  4. John Matthew Myers

    Mao Zedong

  5. Joshua Bloom

    Henry Kissinger

  6. Kathleen Kim

    Chiang Ch’ing

  7. Orchestre de l’Opéra National de Paris

    Self - Orchestra

  8. Gustavo Dudamel

    Self - Conductor

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John Adams: Nixon in China (2023) 165 Min

ALL 04/16/2023 (en)
Music
  • Release 04/16/2023
  • Production
    Camera Lucida Productions
  • Original title John Adams: Nixon in China
  • en
  • Revenue0.00

Overview

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.

  1. Valentina Carrasco, François-René Martin

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Editor

  4. Producer