It's been three decades since the Houston Grand Opera presented John Adams' "Nixon in China," the company's beloved world premiere that changed not only how modern political operas were viewed but ...

When American composer John Adams was getting ready to write his opera Nixon in China, he warmed up his imagination with the image of Chairman Mao... John Adams: Nixon, Minimalism And Mao John Adams: ...

However, that's John Adams, the minimalist modern composer, not the 2nd President of our nation. And Nixon and Mao are characters in Adams' modern opera classic, "Nixon in China," which is featured as ...

When John Adams was just 10 years old, his fantasy was to have a career like Leonard Bernstein's: composing some of the time, then going onstage to conduct his own scores and other great works. "It ...

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 ...

John Adams has written operas that spring from world events - "Nixon In China," "The Death Of Klinghoffer," "Doctor Atomic." But the great composer's newest work, premiering at the Metropolitan Opera, ...