Metropolitan Opera
Met Opera Live: Nixon in China
Sat 12 Feb 2011
Theatre £25 (£20)
Musicians: James Maddalena
Composer: John Adams
Production Company: Metropolitan Opera
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CloseThe 2010-2011 Live in HD season from New York’s Metropolitan Opera.
The Met Opera bring a selection from their award-winning series of live, high-definition performance transmissions to Warwick Arts Centre.
“All of my operas have dealt on deep psychological levels with our American mythology,” says Pulitzer Prize-winning composer John Adams, whose most famous opera has its Met premiere. “The meeting of Nixon and Mao is a mythological moment in world history, particularly American history.” Acclaimed director and longtime Adams collaborator Peter Sellars makes his Met debut with this groundbreaking 1987 work, an exploration of the human truths beyond the headlines surrounding President Nixon’s historic 1972 encounter with Mao and Communist China. Baritone James Maddalena stars as Nixon, a role he created to widespread acclaim. Nixon in China, Sellars says, “shows you what opera can do to history, which is to deepen it and move into its more subtle, nuanced, and mysterious corners.”
This production was originally created by English National Opera.
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Seating up to 550, audiences are assured of an excellent view of the stage and comfortable seating in this well-designed auditorium. The theatre stages the best national and international plays and performances, as well as contemporary and international dance, music and comedians.
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love the timing and coordination of events - trust not at anothers deficit.
Sheila Venville at 4:57pm on Fri 11th Feb 2011