• Nixon in China is an opera in three acts by John Adams with a libretto by Alice Goodman. Adams's first opera, it was inspired by U.S. president Richard...
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    by Richard Nixon to China From February 21 to 28, 1972, United States President Richard Nixon visited the People's Republic of China (PRC) in the culmination...
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  • Nixon in China is an opera by John Adams. Nixon in China may also refer to: 1972 visit by Richard Nixon to China Nixon goes to China, metaphor for an unexpected...
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    The phrase "Nixon goes to China", "Nixon to China", or "Nixon in China" is a historical reference to U.S. President Richard Nixon's 1972 visit to the...
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    Christopher Nixon Cox (born March 14, 1979) is an American lawyer based in New York. He is the son of Tricia Nixon Cox and Edward F. Cox, and grandson...
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    landslide re-election. Nixon's primary focus while in office was on foreign affairs. He focused on détente with the People's Republic of China and the Soviet...
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    "Pat" Nixon (née Ryan; March 16, 1912 – June 22, 1993) was First Lady of the United States from 1969 to 1974 as the wife of President Richard Nixon. She...
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    Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913 – April 22, 1994) was the 37th president of the United States, serving from 1969 until his resignation in 1974. A member...
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    Ride in a Fast Machine (1986) and the orchestral work El Dorado (1991). Adams's first opera was Nixon in China (1987), which recounts Richard Nixon's 1972...
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    States (1969–1974), and his wife Pat Nixon. Located in Yorba Linda, California, on land that President Nixon's family once owned, the library is one...
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  • of Richard Nixon (1969–1974) focused on reducing the dangers of the Cold War among the Soviet Union and China. President Richard Nixon's policy sought...
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  • Nixon's China Game is a documentary on Richard Nixon's 1972 visit to China. It won a 1999 Peabody Award. "Playing the China Card (Nixon's China Game)"...
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  • Donald Nixon (November 23, 1914 – June 27, 1987) was a younger brother of U.S. President Richard Nixon. He was the third of five sons: Harold Nixon (June...
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    Behemoth (category Articles lacking in-text citations from April 2024)
    and oversees the banquets in Hell while having a good singing voice. The Behemoth is also mentioned in the opera, Nixon in China, composed by John Adams...
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    President Richard Nixon. Born in Whittier, California, Edward was the youngest child of Francis and Hannah Nixon. In addition to his brother Richard...
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    The Richard Nixon Birthplace is the birthplace and early childhood home of Richard Nixon, the 37th president of the United States. It is located on the...
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    the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum in his hometown of Yorba Linda, California. He was the first former president to die in 21 years since...
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    is a porcelain statue of mute swans gifted by Richard Nixon to The People's Republic of China during his 1972 diplomatic visit to the country. The production...
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    A Richard Nixon mask is a mask with the likeness of Richard Nixon. It was commercially available and quite popular in the waning days of the administration...
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  • Richard Nixon, played by Anthony Hopkins. The film portrays Nixon as a complex and, in many respects, admirable, though deeply flawed, person. Nixon begins...
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    sent to China for secret diplomatic missions in 1971, which included early deliberations over the communiqué and planning for Richard Nixon to visit...
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    which is utilized in other works like Phrygian Gates, Shaker Loops, and Nixon in China. This style derives from minimalism as defined by the works of Steve...
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  • She has written the libretti for two of the operas of John Adams (Nixon in China and The Death of Klinghoffer) and the text of a cantata by Tarik O'Regan...
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    The impeachment process against Richard Nixon was initiated by the United States House of Representatives on October 30, 1973, during the course of the...
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  • Opera production of Nixon in China and the television broadcast the following year, as well as the 1991 PBS Great Performances: Dance in America staging of...
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    György Ligeti's Le Grand Macabre, John Adams's and Alice Goodman's Nixon in China and The Death of Klinghoffer, and Kaija Saariaho's L'amour de loin....
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  • Kurlyatev, The Enchantress Prosdocimo, Il turco in Italia Raimbaud, Le comte Ory Richard Nixon, Nixon in China Ruggiero, La Juive Rigoletto, Rigoletto Rodrigue...
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  • Jennie Eisenhower (category Nixon family)
    born in San Clemente, California in 1978, to Julie Nixon Eisenhower and David Eisenhower. Her maternal grandparents were U.S. President Richard Nixon and...
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    Schawrz (1992, p. 134) argues that the repetition in John Adams's Nixon in China is "trapping listeners in a narrow acoustic corridor of the Real" while Naomi...
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  • Kathleen Kim (category Articles lacking in-text citations from April 2014)
    In 2012, she sang in a performance of Adams's Nixon in China at the BBC Proms, and also sang Mozart's Mass in C minor with the Oslo Philharmonic. In September...
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