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John Adams: Nixon in China

又名: 尼克松访华

表演者: Edo De Waart/Orchestra of St. Luke's/Trudy Ellen Craney/Marion Dry/Stephanie Friedman/Mari Opatz/John Duykers/Sanford Sylvan/James Maddalena/Carolann Page/Thomas Hammons

专辑类型: Box set

介质: Audio CD

发行时间: 1990-10-25

唱片数: 3

出版者: Nonesuch

条形码: 0075597917727

专辑简介


Music by John Adams
  Libretto by Alice Goodman
  First performance at the Houston Grand Opera, October 22, 1987
  Original stage production by Peter Sellars with choreography by Mark Morris
  Chou En-lai: baritone
  Richard Nixon: baritone
  Henry Kissinger: bass
  Nancy T’ang (first secretary to Mao): mezzo soprano
  Second secretary to Mao: alto
  Third secretary to Mao: contralto
  Mao Tse-tung: tenor
  Pat Nixon: lyric soprano
  Chiang Ch’ing (Madame Mao Tse-tung): coloratura soprano
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  Nixon in China (1985-87) is an opera with music by the American composer John Adams and a libretto by Alice Goodman, about the visit of Richard Nixon to China in 1972, where he met with Mao Zedong and other Chinese officials.
  The work was commissioned by the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Houston Grand Opera and the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. It premiered at the Houston Grand Opera, October 22, 1987 in a production by Peter Sellars with choreography by Mark Morris.
  The opera is composed of three acts. The first details the anticipation and arrival of the Nixon cortege and the first meeting and evening in China. The second act shifts focus to Pat Nixon, as she makes tours of rural China, including an encounter at a pig farm. The second scene includes a performance of a Communist propaganda play, in which first Pat Nixon, then her husband and then Jiang Qing, intercede in the performance. The last act chronicles the last night in China, in which the characters dance a foxtrot, their thoughts wandering to their own pasts.
  The opera takes an interesting perspective on the historical meeting by focusing on the personalities and personal histories of the six key players, Nixon and his wife Pat, Jiang Qing and Chairman Mao, and the two close advisors to the two parties, Henry Kissinger and Zhou Enlai.
  Musically, the opera perhaps owes more influence to 1940s big band dance music than any Asian styles, and John Adams adapted the foxtrot theme from the last act into a concert piece entitled "The Chairman Dances". The libretto, however, was written completely in rhymed, metered couplets, reminiscent of poetic and theatrical styles native to China.

曲目


Act III: 'I Am Old And I Cannot Sleep'
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