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, which Swed called "a revelation."ĭR. The Grammy-winning original cast recording, first released on April 15, 1988, "has an eloquence not since matched," says Los Angeles Times music critic Mark Swed.
John Adams describes his groundbreaking opera Nixon in China as “part epic, part satire, part parody of political posturing, and part serious examination of historical, philosophical, and even gender issues.” The Boston Globe called the 1987 work “a milestone in American operatic history.”
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