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Nixon in China
D: Peter Sellars
C: Paul Daniel
Cast: James MaddalenaJanis KellyJudith HowarthAdrian ThompsonMark StoneSerena KayAlexandra ShermanRebecca de Pont DaviesRoland Wood
English National Opera – Nixon in China

“Nixon in China”, John Adams’s first opera is that rare – if not unique – phenomenon; namely a work which, at its première in Houston in October 1987, concerned people who were still alive and events which occurred some fifteen years beforehand and thus within the audience’s living memory. Over thirty years on from President Nixon’s visit to China, it is perhaps not so easy to appreciate its historical significance. Suffice it to say, the “old cold warrior” (as Alice Goodman’s libretto has Nixon describe himself) effectively ended China’s isolation from the West or, at the very least, started the process whereby full diplomatic relations between the People’s Republic and the United States were restored.

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Albert Herring
D: John Copley
C: Steuart Bedford
Cast: Richard PinkstoneSusan GrittonClarissa MeekAnna GillinghamKitty WhatelyTimothy NelsonAlexander Robin BakerAndri Björn RóbertssonKathleen WilkinsonAdrian ThompsonEmily Vine
Superintendent Budd in Albert Herring by Britten

Andri Björn Róbertsson's Superintendent Budd was another brilliantly drawn characterization, finely sung and funny without descending into ridicule.

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