Nixon in China

WATCH: 'Nixon In China' Streams Live From Paris

The Huffington Post | Amy Lee | Posted 04.18.2012

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John Adams' opera 'Nixon in China' has come back to Paris for the first time since 1991. And today, even viewers outside of France can watch the Theat...

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Nixon in China, 40 Years Later

Winston Lord | Posted 04.23.2012

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Myth: Henry Kissinger was the first American official in China since 1949. Fact: On Kissinger's secret trip to China in July 1971, my dad conveniently made sure he was at the front of the Pakistani-piloted plane as it entered Chinese airspace. Some would say he ran to the front.

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The Met Brings Opera To The Movies

HuffingtonPost.com | Amy Lee | Posted 10.29.2011

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Richard Nixon is watching ballet in Beijing with Chairman Mao as wife Pat Nixon looks on with her hands clasped to her face. A young girl is beaten un...

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Nixon in China and the American City: Radical Urban Revitalization Needed

Milton Curry | Posted 05.25.2011

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The America of 2011 is similar to Nixon's America -- one in which the dominant ideology of suburban living has consumed the nation's political and economic imagination.

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Highlights This Week: Portraits, Politics, Pirouettes

Posted 05.25.2011

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This week on HuffPost Arts, we pulled back the curtain on the effects used to make Black Swan, we heard from designer Bjarke Ingels about his BIG proj...

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Performance Spotlight: 'Nixon In China' At Metropolitan Opera

Posted 05.25.2011

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WHO: John Adams, composer/conductor; Peter Sellars, director; Kathleen Kim as Madame Mao; Janis Kelly as Pat Nixon; Robert Brubaker as Chairman Mao; J...

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Theater Reviews: "Nixon In China!" Olympia Dukakis On A Milkcart! Bloody Ethan Hawke! More!

Michael Giltz | Posted 05.25.2011

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Here's a roundup of my theater-going for the past week covering all the new shows. I see The Whipping Man this weekend but had to miss AR Gurney's lat...

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WATCH: What To Watch: Top Operas To See Before They Close

Posted 05.25.2011

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Around the country, opera companies are looking to the end of their 2010 - 2011 seasons and have begun announcing their 2011-2012 slates. But, before ...

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OPERA: CultureZohn (Singing in the Streets)

Patricia Zohn | Posted 05.25.2011

The Metropolitan Opera offers proof that the double dealing, back-stabbing, larger-than-life emotion of Wagner rivals any of our great governmental dramas.

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Two Operas You'll Never See Performed at the Met!

George Heymont | Posted 05.25.2011

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Whether deploying a chorus line of Ku Klux Klansmen, mocking every symbol of Christianity, or filling the theatre with nonstop profanity, Jerry Springer:The Opera has something to offend everyone.

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