On Saturday the high-definition broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera will be John Adams' "Nixon in China." The performance begins at noon at the AMC Town Plaza 5 in Cape Girardeau. This opera ...

In 1987, “Nixon in China” meditated on what was then recent history, depicting Kissinger as a smooth diplomat with a brutal side. By Zachary Woolfe Henry Kissinger, the polarizing diplomat who died on ...

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 ...

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"All of my operas have dealt on deep psychological levels with our American mythology," says Pulitzer Prize-winning composer John Adams, whose most famous opera has its Met premiere. "The meeting of ...

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 ...

As you prepare to feast upon cranberry sauce, pumpkin pie and your choice of entree this Thanksgiving, there's also an operatic feast to be had.... 'Don Giovanni' To 'Nixon In China': Holiday Feasts ...

In the 30 years since the premiere of American composer John Adams’s first opera, Nixon in China, it has consolidated its place as one of the great 20th century operas. Familiarity with Edo de Waart’s ...

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 ...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Like a conquering hero returning home, Richard Nixon is drawing cheers from California audiences these days. Not as the former president, but as the subject of an opera. “Nixon in ...