
Nixon in China
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John Adams and Alice Goodman’s revolutionary contemporary operatic masterpiece 'Nixon in China' permanently transfigured global avant-garde theater parameters during its historic 1987 world premiere run at the Houston Grand Opera before conquering global flags. Conceived as an intellectually fierce, minimal minimalist verbatim pop opera diptych, the non-linear psychological narrative uses real historical speech transcripts to cross-examine President Richard Nixon's historic diplomatic summit, directed by Peter Sellars.

