John Adams: Nixon in China (2023)
John Adams: Nixon in China (2023) - Music Movies 165 minutes. . 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. opera, minimalist opera, paris national opera
Released: Apr 16, 2023
Runtime: 165 minutes
Genre: Music
Stars: Thomas Hampson, Renée Fleming, Xiaomeng Zhang, John Matthew Myers, Joshua Bloom, Kathleen Kim
Crew: Valentina Carrasco (Director), John Adams (Original Music Composer), Alice Goodman (Writer), Γκουστάβο Ντουνταμέλ (Conductor), Valentina Carrasco (Stage Director), Silvia Aymonino (Costume Design)