Nixon In China
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| Written | 1987 |
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| Composers | John Adams |
| Librettist | Alice Goodman |
| First performance | Wortham Theater Center, Houston, Texas, United States |
| Characters | Second secretary to Mao |
| Jiang Qing | |
| Richard Nixon | |
| Arias | This is prophetic |
| I am the wife of Chairman Mao | |
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| ID | 2346263 |
About Nixon In China
Nixon in China is an opera in three acts by John Adams, with a libretto by Alice Goodman. Adams' first opera, it was inspired by U. S. President Richard Nixon's 1972 visit to China. The work premiered at the Houston Grand Opera on October 22, 1987, in a production by Peter Sellars with choreography by Mark Morris.
