John Adams: Nixon in China (2023)
2h 45m
Running Time
April 16, 2023Release Date

John Adams: Nixon in China (2023)
2h 45m
Running Time
April 16, 2023Release Date
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Plot.
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 & Crew.

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

Orchestre de l’Opéra National de Paris
Self - Orchestra

Gustavo Dudamel
Self - Conductor / Conductor

Valentina Carrasco
Director / Stage Director

John Adams
Original Music Composer

Alice Goodman
Writer

Silvia Aymonino
Costume Design

Peter van Praet
Lighting Design

François-René Martin
Director
Media.


Details.
This Movie Is About.
opera
minimalist opera
opera national de paris
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