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Nixon in China
Opéra Bastille - from 22 March to 16 April 2023
Sales open on 18 October 2022 at 12h00
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Nixon in China
Opera John Adams
Sales open on 18 October 2022 at 12h00
Book Subscribe Option booking This production is no longer available for subscription
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Opéra Bastille - from 22 March to 16 April 2023
3h00 with 1 interval
Language : English
Surtitle : French / English
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Pre‑opening for the young : 22 March 2023
Opening night : 25 March 2023
About
In few words:
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.
- Opening
- First part 85 mn
- Intermission 30 mn
- Second part 65 mn
- End
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Nixon in China
Opera in three acts (1987)
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Music :
John Adams - (1947)
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Libretto :
Alice Goodman
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Conductor :
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Chorus master :
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Director :
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Costume design :
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Lighting design :
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Zhou Enlai :
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Xiaomeng Zhang
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Richard Nixon :
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Henry Kissinger :
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Joshua Bloom
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Nancy Tang :
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Yajie Zhang
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Mao Zedong :
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John Matthew Myers
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Pat Nixon :
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Chiang Ch’ing :
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Performances
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