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The phrase "Nixon goes to China", "Nixon to China", or "Nixon in China" is a historical reference to U.S. President Richard Nixon's 1972 visit to the...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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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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John Adams (composer) (section 1977 to Nixon in China)
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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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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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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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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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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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 Bird of Peace (redirect from Nixon swans)
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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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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Shanghai Communiqué (redirect from Joint Communiqué of the United States of America and the People's Republic of China)
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Baritone (section Subtypes and roles in opera)
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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role in developing the relationship between the United States and the People's Republic of China during the Nixon administration, which culminated in Nixon's...
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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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