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Nixon in China / John Adams.
- Format:
- Video
- Author/Creator:
- Adams, John, 1947- composer, conductor, composer.
- Language:
- English
- French
- German
- Portuguese
- Spanish
- Subjects (All):
- Operas.
- Genre:
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 video file (2 hr., 56 min., 7 sec.)) : sound, colo
- Other Title:
- Met Opera on Demand.
- Place of Publication:
- [New York, New York] : [Metropolitan Opera], [2011]
- Language Note:
- Sung in English; English, French, German, Portuguese, and Spanish subtitles.
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- digital
- video file streaming video file
- Summary:
- 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, Janis Kelly as First Lady Pat Nixon, Russell Braun as Chinese Premier Chou En-lai, and Kathleen Kim as Chiang Ch'ing, Mao's wife. From the pomp of the public displays to the intimacy of the protagonists most private moments, Adams, Sellars, and librettist Alice Goodman reveal the real characters behind the headlines in this landmark American opera.
- 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
- 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.
- Participant:
- Kathleen Kim ; Janis Kelly ; Robert Brubaker ; Russell Braun ; James Maddalena ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Chorus and Ballet ; John Adams, conductor.
- Credits:
- Director, Peter Sellars.
- Notes:
- Recorded live in 2011 at the Metropolitan Opera, New York, New York.
- Description based on vendor-supplied metadata.
- OCLC:
- 859396297
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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