President Trump is pulling a “reverse Nixon” and putting a wedge between Russia and China after his predecessor “drove” ...

“Nixon in China,” composed by John Adams and directed by Peter Sellars, with a libretto by Alice Goodman, was inspired by President Richard M. Nixon’s epoch-making 1972 trip to China.

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From February 24 to March 20, 2026, the Opéra Bastille welcomes Nixon in China, John Adams' opera directed by Valentina ...

Renée Fleming spent decades portraying generals' wives, a countess and a courtesan.

Admittedly, the prognosis for Trump is worse than it was for Nixon in the 1970s. The architect of the U.S.-China rapprochement, Kissinger, said at the time that both Washington and Beijing were ...

I n the early 1970s, President Richard Nixon made history by drawing Communist China closer to the United States, giving Washington an advantage in its Cold War contest with the Soviet Union. Half ...

"And now that 'Nixon in China' is acknowledged as one of the greatest operas of the 20th century, the Houston Grand Opera is looked upon as having made a tremendous contribution," Gockley says.

The superstar soprano discusses her debut in John Adams’s “Nixon in China” at the Paris Opera. For starters, she spends the second act with a dragon. By Ben Miller In May 2017, the star ...

Singer Rene Fleming appears at the 44th Annual Kennedy Center Honors gala in Washington on Dec. 5, 2021, left, and first lady Pat Nixon appears in Camp Springs, Md. after her trip to China with ...

John Adams’ “Nixon in China,” a 1987 work among the most acclaimed American operas, received its Paris Opera premiere on Saturday night to eight minutes of applause following a revelatory ...