John Adams: Nixon in China (Oper in 3 Akten) (3 CDs)

John Adams (geb. 1947)

Robert Orth, Maria Kanyova, Thomas Hammons, Marc Heller, Tracy Dahl, Opera Colorado Chorus, Colorado Symphony, Marin Alsop

3 CDs

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Artists:: Robert Orth, Maria Kanyova, Thomas Hammons, Marc Heller, Tracy Dahl, Opera Colorado Chorus, Colorado Symphony Orchestra, Marin Alsop
Label:: Naxos
Year of recording ca.:: 2008
Item number:: 9196078
UPC/EAN:: 0730099902274
Release date:: 26.10.2009
Series:: Naxos American Classics

A longtime collaborator of John Adams and champion of his music, Marin Alsop directs this live recording of Opera Colorado's 25th Anniversary Celebration production of Nixon in China, presented at Denver's new Ellie Caulkins Opera House during the 2008 National Performing Arts Convention, and featuring an internationally recognized cast. Alice Goodman's epic libretto and John Adams's distinctive music weave together a colorful fabric of actual events from President Nixon's historic visit to the People's Republic of China with intimate examinations of the opera's real life characters. The spectacle, drama, humor and pathos of this masterpiece remain as compelling today as when the opera was premièred in 1987.

Reviews

audio 02/10: »Die präzise tickenden Klangwolken des Minimal-Komponisten entwickeln hier einen geradezu magischen Sog. Packend: das Colorado Symphony Orchestra unter Alsop. Das Solistenteam glänzt auf der ganzen Linie.«

Disk 1 von 3 (CD)

1 Nixon in China: Act I Scene 1: Beginning
2 Nixon in China: Act I Scene 1: Soldiers of heaven hold the sky (Chorus)
3 Nixon in China: Act I Scene 1: The people are the heroes now (Chorus)
4 Nixon in China: Act I Scene 1: Landing of the Spirit of '76
5 Nixon in China: Act I Scene 1: Your flight was smooth, I hope? (Chou, Nixon)
6 Nixon in China: Act I Scene 1: News has a kind of mystery (Nixon, Chou, Kissinger, Chorus)
7 Nixon in China: Act I Scene 2: Beginning - I can't talk very well. My throat# (Mao, Nixon, Chou, Kissinger, 3 Secretarie
8 Nixon in China: Act I Scene 2: You know we'll meet with your confrere, the Democratic candidate (Mao, Nixon, Kissinger)
9 Nixon in China: Act I Scene 2: You've said that there's a certain well-known tree (Chou, Nixon, Mao, Kissinger, 3 Secret
10 Nixon in China: Act I Scene 2: Founders come first, then profiteers (Mao, 3 Secretaries, Nixon, Chou, Kissinger)
11 Nixon in China: Act I Scene 2: We no longer need Confucius (Mao, 3 Secretaries)
12 Nixon in China: Act I Scene 2: Like the Ming Tombs (Nixon, 3 Secretaries, Mao, Chou)
13 Nixon in China: Act I Scene 3: Beginning - The night is young (Nixon, Pat, Chou, Kissinger, Chorus)
14 Nixon in China: Act I Scene 3: Ladies and Gentlemen, Comrades and Friends (Chou, Chorus, Pat, Kissinger)
15 Nixon in China: Act I Scene 3: Mr. Premier, distinguished guests (Nixon, Chorus)
16 Nixon in China: Act I Scene 3: Cheers! (Chorus, Nixon, Chou, Pat, Kissinger)

Disk 2 von 3 (CD)

1 Nixon in China: Act II Scene 1: Beginning - I don't daydream and don't look back (Pat)
2 Nixon in China: Act II Scene 1: Look down at the earth (Chorus, Pat, 3 Secretaries)
3 Nixon in China: Act II Scene 1: This is prophetic! (Pat)
4 Nixon in China: Act II Scene 1: At last the weather's warming up (Pat, Chorus)
5 Nixon in China: Act II Scene 2: Beginning - Young as we are (3 Secretaries)
6 Nixon in China: Act II Scene 2: O what a day I thought I'd die! (Kissinger as Lao Szu, Chorus as Ching-hua, 3 Secretarie
7 Nixon in China: Act II Scene 2: Whip her to death! (Kissinger as Lao Szu, Pat, Nixon)
8 Nixon in China: Act II Scene 2: Tropical Storm: There there, there there (Pat)
9 Nixon in China: Act II Scene 2: Flesh Rebels (Chorus as Militia)
10 Nixon in China: Act II Scene 2: I have my brief (Kissinger as Lao Szu, Nixon)
11 Nixon in China: Act II Scene 2: It seems so strange (Chorus as Ching-hua, Chiang Ch'ing, Pat, Nixon, 3 Secretaries)
12 Nixon in China: Act II Scene 2: I am the wife of Mao Tse-tung (Chiang Ch'ing, Chorus)

Disk 3 von 3 (CD)

1 Nixon in China: Act III: Beginning
2 Nixon in China: Act III: Some men you cannot satisfy (Kissinger, Nixon, Pat, Chou, Chiang Ch'ing)
3 Nixon in China: Act III: I am no one (Mao, Chou, Kissinger, Chiang Ch'ing, Pat)
4 Nixon in China: Act III: The Maos Dance (Chiang Ch'ing, Mao, Pat, Nixon, Chou)
5 Nixon in China: Act III: Sitting around the radio (Nixon, Pat)
6 Nixon in China: Act III: Let us examine what you did (Mao, Chiang Ch'ing, Chou)
7 Nixon in China: Act III: When I woke up I dimly realized the Jap Bombers had given us a miss (Nixon, Pat)
8 Nixon in China: Act III: I have no offspring (Chou, Mao, Chiang Ch'ing)
9 Nixon in China: Act III: I can keep still (Chiang Ch'ing)
10 Nixon in China: Act III: After that the sweat had soaked my uniform (Nixon, Pat, Chiang Ch'ing, Mao, Chou)
11 Nixon in China: Act III: Peking watches the stars (Chiang Ch'ing, Mao)
12 Nixon in China: Act III: You won at poker (Pat, Nixon, Chiang Ch'ing, Mao)
13 Nixon in China: Act III: I am old and I cannot sleep (Chou)