John Adams: Nixon in China

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John Adams: Nixon in China (2023)

Directed by Valentina Carrasco, François-René Martin

Music · 2h 45m

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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Cast

Thomas Hampson Richard Nixon Renée Fleming Pat Nixon Xiaomeng Zhang Chou En-Lai John Matthew Myers Mao Zedong Joshua Bloom Henry Kissinger Kathleen Kim Chiang Ch’ing
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Orchestre de l’Opéra National de Paris Self - Orchestra Gustavo Dudamel Self - Conductor

Crew

Director
Valentina Carrasco, François-René Martin
Writer
Alice Goodman
Original Music Composer
John Adams

Details

Release date
2023-04-16
Runtime
2h 45m
Genres
Music
Original language
EN
Spoken languages
English
Countries
France
Production
Camera Lucida