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2006/5/22-28 [Politics/Foreign/Asia/China, Politics/Domestic/President, Politics/Domestic/President/Bush] UID:43142 Activity:nil
5/22    http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060522/od_nm/leisure_nixon_odd_dc
        First they made an opera called Nixon in China. Maybe we'll see
        an opera called Bush in Iraq in the future. One can only hope.
        \_ Nixon ineptly invaded China on false pretenses leading to
           civil war and shattering what little stability was left in
           the region?  I need to keep up on my history!
           \- ObTrivia: the "they" that did the NIXON IN CHINA opera is
              composer JOHN ADAMS, who happens to live in BERKELEY. He is
              also the fellow that did the DOCTOR ATOMIC opera about fmr
              UCB Physics Prof ROPPENHEIMER, which you may have heard about
              last year. ROPPHENHEIMER's brother FOPPENHEIMER is the "they"
              behind the EXPLORATORIUM who both went to the same high school
              in NYC as my friend whose bday is today. ok tnx.
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"Nixon in China," the John Adams' opera first staged in 1987, is in the midst of a new wave of popularity and performances, the latest being a triumphal turn on the stage of the Chicago Opera Theater where it opened May 19. Adams' seductive yet complex and minimalist melodies, as well as librettist Alice Goodman's poetry turn Nixon's 1972 breakthrough visit to China into a timeless tour of human nature. Here again are Nixon, his wife Pat, Henry Kissinger, Chairman Mao Tse-tung, his powerful wife, Chiang Ch'ing, and foreign minister Chou En-lai, facing life's sunset and their own banalities even at the height of power. In what opera does best, the aggregate soars far beyond the parts and personalities, and even the China visit itself. That is why it continues to endure and will likely be coming to life on stages 50 or 100 years from now, believes Brian Dickie, general manager of the Chicago Opera Theater. "These are universal, timeless characters," he said in an interview. "They happen to be Nixon and Mao but throughout human history there have been similar types of people." Its anchor in history should not cause it to be dated or make it incomprehensible for future generations, he said, and if anything it might be updated in years to come to morph the characters into more contemporaneous political figures of the future. The opera has enjoyed a remarkable exposure in recent times. The current production's sets, costumes and other assets were done in association with several other US companies, principally the Opera Theater of St. The English National Opera will mount Nixon in June and July. The current Chicago offering, which Chicago Tribune critic John von Rhein called "one production all opera fans should see," features banks of television monitors which replay actual videos from the 1972 meeting. It was an occasion that opened doors between anti-communist Nixon and a powerful Chinese leadership which had been estranged from the United States for nearly a quarter century. Brought to the human level, the opera depicts something that is "like a tea party in suburbia," Dickie says in the program notes. Enshrining contemporary figures into opera is trendy just now. Chicago's Lyric Opera plans to stage another work by Adams, "Dr. Atomic," about Robert Oppenheimer, who helped develop the atomic bomb. Republication or redistribution of Reuters content is expressly prohibited without the prior written consent of Reuters. Reuters shall not be liable for any errors or delays in the content, or for any actions taken in reliance thereon.