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Nixon in China: A Postmodernist Exercise |
| Section: THE ARTS / MUSIC |
| Author: Kenneth LaFave |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/1988 |
| Size: 736 Words, 4,673 Characters |
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The world premiere of Nixon in China last October in Houston was the focus of extraordinary press attention and public interest. More than fifty critics were there from around the nation; the event even made CBS's Sunday Morning. And not without good reason. For once, a new opera was inaugurating a new hall, Houston's Wortham Theater Center. The Houston Grand Opera had joined with the Brooklyn Academy of Music and the Kennedy Center in commissioning a new piece from the combined talents of composer John Adams, director Peter Sellars, and British poet Alice Goodman. What they go...
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...round-shouldered stoop. Tenor John Duykers had to force things a bit to overcome the ungratefully high tessitura of Adams' writing for the role of Mao.
Nixon in China, which also appeared at the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Next Wave Festival in December, comes to The Kennedy Center in February, then travels to the Netherlands Opera in June and the Los Angeles Music Center Opera in 1989.
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