John Adams: Nixon in China
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.
Year: 2023
Genre: Music
Studio: Camera Lucida
Director: Valentina Carrasco, François-René Martin
Cast: Thomas Hampson, Renée Fleming, Xiaomeng Zhang, John Matthew Myers, Joshua Bloom, Kathleen Kim
Crew: Valentina Carrasco (Director), John Adams (Original Music Composer), Silvia Aymonino (Costume Design), François-René Martin (Director), Valentina Carrasco (Stage Director), Alice Goodman (Writer)
Runtime: 165 minutes
Release: Apr 16, 2023
IMDb: 4.00/10 by 1 users
Popularity: 0
Country: France
Language: English
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0
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