CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 27/08/2008
Hot on the heels of its announcement that it will present the Canadian premiere of the John Adams opera Nixon in China, Vancouver Opera is set to reveal today that it will also present the Canadian premiere of John Corigliano's The Ghosts of Versailles.
Baltimore Sun (Free subscription) | 29/06/2008
Critical Eye Earlier this month in Denver, a hearty ovation greeted the dynamic cast after a performance of Opera Colorado's visually and musically potent production of Nixon in China , the minimalist masterpiece by John Adams. But, had an applause meter been in place during the curtain calls, it would have registered the biggest surge of clapping and cheering for the last person to walk onstage, someone...
DATA news (Free subscription) | 21/06/2008
James Robinson’s production of John Adams’s “Nixon in China” for Opera Colorado stresses inner dimension in several ways.
New York Times (Free subscription) | 17/06/2008
James Robinson’s production of John Adams’s “Nixon in China” for Opera Colorado stresses inner dimension in several ways.
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 16/06/2008
Composer John Adams is hardly lacking in honor or attention here in the Bay Area - performances and commissions are numerous - but you still have to leave town to hear his intoxicating first opera, "Nixon in China." That's unconscionable. In Denver, where...
Denver Post (Free subscription) | 20/03/2008
Opera Colorado and the Colorado Symphony will join forces to produce a live recording of the company's June 7-14 production of composer John Adams' acclaimed 1987 opera, "Nixon in China," both
Alex Ross: The Rest Is Noise (Free subscription) | 07/03/2008
La Cieca reports on the Met 2008-09 season announcement, which I was unable to attend. She notes significant news in the realm of contemporary opera: John Adams's Nixon in China is scheduled for the 2010-11 season, in the classic Peter...
Screenwerk (Free subscription) | 04/02/2008
Years from now someone, like John Adams (of Nixon in China fame), will write an opera about the Internet, the (attempted') takeover of Yahoo! by Microsoft and Google’s efforts to thwart it. One could also incorporate themes about the earlier rise of Google, the destruction of traditional media, the decline of American capitalism's hegemony and [...]
Opera Today (Free subscription) | 20/01/2008
John Adams, whose opera Nixon in China set the bar for post-minimalism in the lyric theatre, has once again scored a success with his latest work.
Deceptively Simple (Free subscription) | 24/08/2007
And what I don't, to answer your recent queries. Alex Ross has written about John Adams's Nixon in China. I do not know if Piotr Anderszewski or Rory Stewart are gay. No knee pain song here. I also have no...
