“Nixon in China” is about the 37th president’s monumental meeting with Chairman Mao in 1972, breaking two decades of hostile silence between the U.S. and communist China. Nixon is often portrayed as a cartoon villain. But even his critics were impressed by his surprise summit in Red China. The opera premiered in 1987, and is now considered one of the great contemporary American operas.
“A dazzling reimagining of Nixon in China.”
“A Monumental Work Of American Minimalist Composition.”
