Name: Prom 72: John Adams – Nixon In China
Start: 2012-09-05T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2012-09-05T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Royal Albert Hall

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Mezzo-soprano

Stephanie Marshall

Nancy Tang

Louise Poole

Susan Platts

Baritone

James Rutherford

Henry Kissinger

Soprano

Jessica Rivera

Pat Nixon

Gerald Finley

Zhou En Lai

Tenor

Alan Oke

Mao Zedong

Kathleen Kim

Madam Mao

Bass

Robert Orth

Richard Nixon

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John Coolidge Adams

Prom 72: John Adams – Nixon In China

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Verenigd Koninkrijk

Royal Albert Hall

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Nixon in China

Arshiya Banu

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Alice Goodman’s poetic, intensely original libretto is based on Richard and Pat Nixon’s historic three-day visit to China in 1972. Protagonists viewed initially as transcendent iconic figures are not so much satirised as seen for what they are.

The score pounds away eclectically with nods to Broadway and rock, Minimalism and Igor Stravinsky, but there’s no mistaking the identity of the composer, who joins us tonight, nor the colour and brilliance of one of the iconic works of our time.

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