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John Adams, Alice Goodman, Orchestra Of St. Luke's, Edo de Waart - Nixon In China (An Opera In Three Acts) album

John Adams, Alice Goodman, Orchestra Of St. Luke's, Edo de Waart - Nixon In China (An Opera In Three Acts) album

  • Performer: John Adams
  • Genre: Classical
  • Title: Nixon In China (An Opera In Three Acts)
  • Released: 1988
  • Style: Contemporary, Minimal, Political, Opera
  • Country: US
  • MP3 version size: 1468 mb
  • FLAC version size: 1600 mb
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  • Rating: 4.1
  • Votes: 301

Description

Libretto By – Alice Goodman. Orchestra – Orchestra Of St. Luke's. Producer – Jennifer Keats, Wilhelm Hellweg. Vocals – Trudy Ellen Craney. This reissue, released February 1, 2011, to coincide with the Metropolitan Opera premiere of Nixon in China, includes the original, composer-supervised recording on three CDs, plus a 68-page booklet with new notes by Adams and director Peter Sellars, along with the original liner notes by librettist Alice Goodman and by Michael Steinberg.

Libretto By – Alice Goodman. Producer – Wilhelm Hellweg. Comes with 64-page booklet that is embedded within the boxset. The booklet was made for all three media: CD, vinyl and cassette. Records contained in ox-blood red 12" inner sleeves.

Composed By – John Adams. Conductor – Edo De Waart. Directed By – Peter Sellars. Engineer – John Newton. Executive-Producer – Robert Hurwitz. Libretto By – Alice Goodman. Liner Notes – Joseph Horowitz. Mezzo-soprano Vocals – Mari Opatz. Mezzo-soprano Vocals – Stephanie Friedman. Mezzo-soprano Vocals – Marion Dry. Luke's

Conductor – Edo De Waart. Contractor – Jacqueline Pierce. Directed By – Michael Feldman (2). Directed By – Louise Schulman.

Edo de Waart, Orchestra of St. John Adams: Music from "Nixon In China". Orchestra of St. Luke's, Edo de Waart. 2. Act I, Scene I: Soldiers of Heaven Hold the Sky. John Adams. 3. Act I, Scene I: The People are the Heroes Now. 4. Act I, Scene I: Landing of the Spirit of '76. 5. Act I, Scene I: Your Flight was Smooth, I Hope? John Adams. 6. Act I, Scene I: News has a Kind of Mystery.

Orchestra of St. The orchestra has appeared on more than 100 recordings, four of which have won Grammy Awards: John Adams's Nixon in China, Samuel Barber's Knoxville: Summer of 1915, Listen to the Storyteller with Wynton Marsalis, and Bel Canto with Renée Fleming The orchestra's current president & executive director is James Roe. Its current board chairman is Norman S. Benzaquen. Opera Orchestra of New York. Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.

Profile: American poet, born 1958 in Saint Paul, Minnesota. She wrote the libretti for two of the operas of John Adams: Nixon in China and The Death of Klinghoffer. John Adams, Alice Goodman, Orchestra Of St. Luke's, Edo de Waart - Nixon In China (An Opera In Three Acts). John Adams, Alice Goodman - The Orchestra Of The Opéra De Lyon, Kent Nagano.

Album · 1995 · 41 Songs. More By Edo de Waart. See All. Reich: Variations, Music for Mallet Instruments & 6 Pianos. Adams: Harmonielehre. John Adams:The Death Of Klinghoffer. Kent Nagano & Orchestre de l'Opéra de Lyon. J. Adams: Doctor Atomic Symphony & Guide to Strange Places. David Robertson & Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra. Dawn Upshaw, Deutsches Symphonieorchester Berlin, Kent Nagano, Lorraine Hunt Lieberson & Willard White. Adams: Nixon In China. Marin Alsop & Colorado Symphony. On the Transmigration of Souls - EP. Lorin Maazel & New York Philharmonic. Glass Houses Revisited: Music of Ann Southam. Christina Petrowska Quilico.

TITLE added to MP3 cart. Edo De Waart/ Orchestra Of St. Lukes. The music is compelling, exciting and appealing to an audience much wider than usual for opera. I bought the album at the opera shop next to the Coliseum. James Maddelena created the part of Nixon (and appeared in the London production). The recording is thirteen years old and wears its years well. All performances are superb. The Orchestra of St Luke's, less well known in the UK, perhaps, is a revelation.

Personal Name: Adams, John, 1947-. Uniform Title: Nixon in China. Publication, Distribution, et. Amsterdam. De Nederlandse Operastichting, (c)1988. Physical Description: 72 p. : il. ports. Wereldpremière Wortham Theater Center, Houston, 22 oktober 1987 ; Nederlandse première Het Muziektheater, Amsterdam, 2 juni 1988" . General Note: Introductory text and libretto in Dutch and English. General Note: Synopsis in Dutch, English, French, and German. Bibliography, etc. Note: Bibliography: p. 64. Personal Name: Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994 Drama. Personal Name: Goodman, Alice.

Tracklist

A Act I - Scene I 19:01
B Act I - Scene II 24:44
C Act I - Scene III 19:05
D Act II - Scene I 20:30
E Act II - Scene II 28:30
F Act III 32:45

Companies, etc.

  • Copyright (c) – Red Dawn Music
  • Phonographic Copyright (p) – Elektra/Asylum/Nonesuch Records
  • Phonographic Copyright (p) – WEA International Inc.
  • Record Company – Warner Communications Inc.
  • Manufactured By – Record Service GmbH

Credits

  • Chorus – Chorus Of St. Luke's
  • Composed By – John Adams
  • Conductor – Edo de Waart
  • Directed By [Original Production] – Peter Sellars
  • Libretto By – Alice Goodman
  • Orchestra – Orchestra Of St. Luke's
  • Producer – Wilhelm Hellweg
  • Vocals [Chiang Ch'ing (Madame Mao Tse-tung)] – Trudy Ellen Craney
  • Vocals [Chou En-lai] – Sanford Sylvan
  • Vocals [Henry Kissinger] – Thomas Hammons
  • Vocals [Mao Tse-tung] – John Duykers
  • Vocals [Nancy T'ang (First Secretary To Mao)] – Mari Opatz
  • Vocals [Pat Nixon] – Carolann Page
  • Vocals [Richard Nixon] – James Maddalena
  • Vocals [Second Secretary To Mao] – Stephanie Friedman
  • Vocals [Third Secretary To Mao] – Marion Dry

Notes

An Opera in three acts.
Co-commissioned by the Houston Grand Opera, The Brooklyn Academy of Music, and The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.

Comes with 64-page booklet that is embedded within the boxset. The booklet was made for all three media: CD, vinyl and cassette.
Records contained in ox-blood red 12" inner sleeves.

Barcode and Other Identifiers

  • Barcode (Text): 0 7559-79177-1 0
  • Barcode (String): 075597917710
  • Other (French Distribution Code): WE 384
  • Rights Society: BMI
  • Label Code: LC 0286
  • Rights Society: GEMA / BIEM

Other versions

Category Artist Title (Format) Label Category Country Year
9 79177-1 John Adams / Alice Goodman, Orchestra Of St. Luke's, Edo de Waart John Adams / Alice Goodman, Orchestra Of St. Luke's, Edo de Waart - Nixon In China (An Opera In Three Acts) ‎(3xLP + Box) Elektra Nonesuch 9 79177-1 US 1988
79177-2 John Adams / Alice Goodman, Orchestra Of St. Luke's, Edo de Waart, Peter Sellars John Adams / Alice Goodman, Orchestra Of St. Luke's, Edo de Waart, Peter Sellars - Nixon In China (An Opera In Three Acts) ‎(3xCD, RE + Box, RE) Nonesuch 79177-2 US 2011
7559-79177-2, 979 177-2 John Adams Nixon In China ‎(3xCD, Album + Box) Elektra Nonesuch, Elektra Nonesuch 7559-79177-2, 979 177-2 Europe 1988
9 79177-2, 79177-2 John Adams / Alice Goodman, Orchestra Of St. Luke's, Edo De Waart John Adams / Alice Goodman, Orchestra Of St. Luke's, Edo De Waart - Nixon In China ‎(3xCD) Elektra Nonesuch 9 79177-2, 79177-2 US 1988