Nixon in China

~ Release by John Adams; Colorado Symphony Orchestra, Marin Alsop, Robert Orth, Maria Kanyova, Thomas Hammons, Marc Heller, Tracy Dahl, Chen-Ye Yuan (see all versions of this release, 1 available)

Annotation

Cast:

Richard Nixon: Robert Orth
Pat Nixon: Maria Kanyova
Henry Kissinger: Thomas Hammons
Mao Tse-tung: Marc Heller
Madame Mao (Chiang Ch'ing: Tracy Dahl
Chou En-lai: Chen-Ye Yuan
1st Secretary (Nancy T'ang): Melissa Malde
2nd Secretary: Julie Simson
3rd Secretary: Jennifer DeDominici

Recorded live at the Ellie Caulkins Opera House, Denver, Colorado, 6-14 Jun 2008.

Annotation last modified on 2013-04-02 03:33 UTC.

Tracklist

# Title Artist Rating Length
  CD 1
11 Act I Scene 1: Beginning
John Adams 2:44
22 Act I Scene 1: Soldiers of Heaven Hold the Sky (Chorus)
John Adams 2:45
33 Act I Scene 1: The People are the Heroes Now (Chorus)
John Adams 2:50
44 Act I Scene 1: Landing of the Spirit of '76
John Adams 2:33
55 Act I Scene 1: Your Flight Was Smooth, I Hope (Chou, Nixon)
John Adams 1:26
66 Act I Scene 1: News Has a Kind of Mystery (Nixon, Chou, Kissinger, Chorus)
John Adams 7:29
77 Act I Scene 2: Beginning - I Can't Talk Very Well. My Throat… (Mao, Nixon, Chou, Kissinger, 3 Secretaries)
John Adams 4:19
88 Act I Scene 2: You Know We'll Meet With Your Confrere, the Democratic Candidate (Mao, Nixon, Kissinger)
John Adams 2:40
99 Act I Scene 2: You've Said That There's a Certain Well-Known Tree (Chou, Nixon, Mao, Kissinger, 3 Secretaries)
John Adams 2:48
1010 Act I Scene 2: Founders Come First, Then Profiteers (Mao, 3 Secretaries, Nixon, Chou, Kissinger)
John Adams 7:25
1111 Act I Scene 2: We No Longer Need Confucius (Mao, 3 Secretaries)
John Adams 3:09
1212 Act I Scene 2: Like the Ming Tombs (Nixon, 3 Secretaries, Mao, Chou)
John Adams 5:39
1313 Act I Scene 3: Beginning - The Night Is Young (Nixon, Pat, Chou, Kissinger, Chorus)
John Adams 6:27
1414 Act I Scene 3: Ladies and Gentlemen, Comrades and Friends (Chou, Chorus, Pat, Kissinger)
John Adams 7:00
1515 Act I Scene 3: Mr. Premier, Distinguished Guests (Nixon, Chorus)
John Adams 2:48
1616 Act I Scene 3: Cheers! (Chorus, Nixon, Chou, Pat, Kissinger)
John Adams 4:16
  CD 2
11 Act II Scene 1: Beginning - I Don't Daydream and Don't look Back (Pat)
John Adams 3:47
22 Act II Scene 1: Look Down at the Earth (Chorus, Pat)
John Adams 5:51
33 Act II Scene 1: This Is Prophetic! (Pat)
John Adams 7:58
44 Act II Scene 1: At Last the Weather's Warming Up (Pat)
John Adams 3:19
55 Act II Scene 2: Beginning - Young as We Are (3 Secretaries)
John Adams 3:02
66 Act II Scene 2: O What a Day I Thought I'd Die! (Kissinger as Lao Szu, Chorus as Ching-hua, 3 Secretaries, Pat)
John Adams 4:41
77 Act II Scene 2: Whip Her to Death! (Kissinger as Lao Szu, Pat, Nixon)
John Adams 2:58
88 Act II Scene 2: Tropical Storm: There There, There There (Pat)
John Adams 4:57
99 Act II Scene 2: Flesh Rebels (Chorus as Militia)
John Adams 3:09
1010 Act II Scene 2: I Have My Brief (Kissinger as Lao Szu, Nixon)
John Adams 1:11
1111 Act II Scene 2: It Seems So Strange (Chorus as Ching-hua, Chiang Ch'ing, Pat, Nixon, 3 Secretaries)
John Adams 3:02
1212 Act II Scene 2: I Am the Wife of Mao Tse-tung (Chiang Ch'ing, Chorus)
John Adams 7:05
  CD 3
11 Act III: Beginning
John Adams 1:08
22 Act III: Some Men You Cannot Satisfy (Kissinger, Nixon, Pat, Chou, Chiang Ch'ing)
John Adams 3:09
33 Act III: I Am No One (Mao, Chou, Kissinger, Chiang Ch'ing, Pat)
John Adams 3:47
44 Act III: The Maos Dance (Chiang Ch'ing, Mao, Pat, Nixon, Chou)
John Adams 2:05
55 Act III: Sitting Around the Radio (Nixon, Pat)
John Adams 1:17
66 Act III: Let Us Examine What You Did (Mao, Chiang Ch'ing, Chou)
John Adams 2:55
77 Act III: When I Woke Up I Dimly Realized the Jap Bombers Had Given Us a Miss (Nixon, Pat)
John Adams 1:22
88 Act III: I Have No Offspring (Chou, Mao, Chiang Ch'ing)
John Adams 2:05
99 Act III: I Can Keep Still (Chiang Ch'ing)
John Adams 3:14
1010 Act III: After That the Sweat Had Soaked my Uniform (Nixon, Pat, Chiang Ch'ing, Mao, Chou)
John Adams 2:55
1111 Act III: Peking Watches the Stars (Chiang Ch'ing, Mao)
John Adams 3:30
1212 Act III: You Won at Poker (Pat, Nixon, Chiang Ch'ing, Mao)
John Adams 4:02
1313 Act III: I Am Old and I Cannot Sleep (Chou)
John Adams 4:57

Relationships

choir vocals:
Opera Colorado Chorus (tracks 1.2–1.3, 1.6, 1.13–1.16, 2.2, 2.6, 2.9, 2.11–2.12)
chorus master:
Douglas Kinney Frost (tracks 1.2–1.3, 1.6, 1.13–1.16, 2.2, 2.9, 2.11–2.12)
composer:
John Adams (American minimalist composer John Coolidge Adams) (tracks 1.1, 1.7–1.13, 1.16, 2.1–2.2, 2.4, 2.8–2.11, 3.1–3.5, 3.7)
John Adams (American minimalist composer John Coolidge Adams) (1985 – 1987) (tracks 1.1–1.6, 1.14–1.16, 2.3, 2.5–2.7, 2.12, 3.6, 3.8–3.13)
conductor:
Marin Alsop (tracks 1.1–1.15, 2.1–2.12, 3.1–3.13)
librettist:
Alice Goodman (tracks 1.7–1.13, 1.16, 2.1–2.2, 2.4, 2.8–2.11, 3.2–3.5, 3.7)
Alice Goodman (1985 – 1987) (tracks 1.2–1.3, 1.5–1.6, 1.14–1.16, 2.3, 2.5–2.7, 2.12, 3.6, 3.8–3.13)
liner notes:
Gregory Carpenter (Liner note writer) [ Remove | Edit ]
mixer:
John Newton (editor, mixer) (tracks 1.1–1.11, 2.1–2.10, 3.1–3.9)
orchestra:
Colorado Symphony Orchestra (tracks 1.1–1.16, 2.1–2.12, 3.1–3.13)
photography:
Steve Kagan [ Remove | Edit ]
producer:
Tim Handley (tracks 1.1–1.16, 2.1–2.12, 3.1–3.13)
sound engineer:
Tim Handley (tracks 1.1–1.16, 2.1–2.12, 3.1–3.13)
vocals:
Tracy Dahl (tracks 2.11–2.12, 3.2–3.4, 3.6, 3.8–3.12)
Jennifer DeDominici (tracks 1.7, 1.9–1.12, 2.5–2.6, 2.11)
Thomas Hammons (tracks 1.6–1.8, 1.10, 1.14, 1.16, 2.6–2.7, 3.2–3.3)
Marc Heller (tracks 1.7–1.12, 3.3–3.4, 3.6, 3.8, 3.10–3.12)
Maria Kanyova (tracks 1.13–1.14, 1.16, 2.1–2.4, 2.7–2.8, 2.11, 3.2–3.4, 3.7, 3.10, 3.12)
Melissa Malde (tracks 1.7, 1.9–1.12, 2.6, 2.11)
Robert Orth (tracks 1.5–1.10, 1.12–1.13, 1.15–1.16, 2.7, 2.10–2.11, 3.2, 3.4–3.5, 3.7, 3.10, 3.12)
Julie Simson (tracks 1.7, 1.9–1.12, 2.5–2.6, 2.11)
live recording of:
Nixon in China: Act I, Scene I. "Soldiers of heaven hold the sky" (Chorus) (track 1.2)
Nixon in China: Act I, Scene I. Beginning (track 1.1)
Nixon in China: Act I, Scene II. "News has a kind of mystery:" (Nixon, Chou En-lai, Kissinger) (track 1.6)
Nixon in China: Act I, Scene II. "The people are the heroes now" (Chorus) (track 1.3)
Nixon in China: Act I, Scene II. "Your flight was smooth, I hope?" (Chou En-lai, Nixon) (track 1.5)
Nixon in China: Act I, Scene II. Landing of the Spirit of '76 (track 1.4)
Nixon in China: Act I, Scene II: Beginning - I Can't Talk Very Well. My Throat… (Mao, Nixon, Chou, Kissinger, 3 Secretaries) (track 1.7)
Nixon in China: Act I, Scene II: Founders Come First, Then Profiteers (Mao, 3 Secretaries, Nixon, Chou, Kissinger) (track 1.10)
Nixon in China: Act I, Scene II: Like the Ming Tombs (Nixon, 3 Secretaries, Mao, Chou) (track 1.12)
Nixon in China: Act I, Scene II: We No Longer Need Confucius (Mao, 3 Secretaries) (track 1.11)
Nixon in China: Act I, Scene II: You Know We'll Meet With Your Confrere, the Democratic Candidate (Mao, Nixon, Kissinger) (track 1.8)
Nixon in China: Act I, Scene II: You've Said That There's a Certain Well-Known Tree (Chou, Nixon, Mao, Kissinger, 3 Secretaries) (track 1.9)
Nixon in China: Act I, Scene III. "Ladies and Gentlemen, Comrades and Friends," (Chou En-lai) (track 1.14)
Nixon in China: Act I, Scene III. "Mr. Premier, distinguished guests," (Nixon) (track 1.15)
Nixon in China: Act I, Scene III: Beginning - The Night Is Young (Nixon, Pat, Chou, Kissinger, Chorus) (track 1.13)
Nixon in China: Act I, Scene III: Cheers! (Chorus, Nixon, Chou, Pat, Kissinger) (track 1.16)
Nixon in China: Act II Scene 1: Look Down at the Earth (Chorus, Pat) (track 2.2)
Nixon in China: Act II, Scene 1: At Last the Weather's Warming Up (Pat) (track 2.4)
Nixon in China: Act II, Scene 1: Beginning - I Don't Daydream and Don't Look Back (Pat) (track 2.1)
Nixon in China: Act II, Scene I. "This is prophetic!" (Pat Nixon) (track 2.3)
Nixon in China: Act II, Scene II. "I am the wife of Mao Tse-tung" (Chiang Ch'ing) (track 2.12)
Nixon in China: Act II, Scene II. "Oh what a day / I thought I'd die!" (Kissinger (as Lao Szu), Chorus (as Wu Ching-hua)) (track 2.6)
Nixon in China: Act II, Scene II. "Whip her to death!" (Kissinger (as Lao Szu), Pat Nixon, Nixon) (track 2.7)
Nixon in China: Act II, Scene II. Opening (Chorus) (track 2.5)
Nixon in China: Act II, Scene II: Flesh Rebels (Chorus as Militia) (track 2.9)
Nixon in China: Act II, Scene II: I Have My Brief (Kissinger as Lao Szu, Nixon) (track 2.10)
Nixon in China: Act II, Scene II: It Seems So Strange (Chorus as Ching-hua, Chiang Ch'ing, Pat, Nixon, 3 Secretaries) (track 2.11)
Nixon in China: Act II, Scene II: Tropical Storm: There There, There There (Pat) (track 2.8)
Nixon in China: Act III. "After that - / The sweat / Had soaked my uniform" (Nixon, Pat Nixon, Mao, Chou En-lai) (track 3.10)
Nixon in China: Act III. "I Can Keep Still," (Chiang Ch'ing) (track 3.9)
Nixon in China: Act III. "I am Old and I Cannot Sleep" (Chou En-lai) (track 3.13)
Nixon in China: Act III. "I have no offspring." (Chou En-lai, Mao, Chiang Ch'ing) (track 3.8)
Nixon in China: Act III. "Let Us Examine What You Did." (Mao, Chiang Ch'ing, Chou En-lai) (track 3.6)
Nixon in China: Act III. "Peking Watches the Stars," (Chiang Ch'ing, Mao) (track 3.11)
Nixon in China: Act III. "You Won at Poker." (Pat Nixon, Nixon) (track 3.12)
Nixon in China: Act III: Beginning (track 3.1)
Nixon in China: Act III: I Am No One (Mao, Chou, Kissinger, Chiang Ch'ing, Pat) (track 3.3)
Nixon in China: Act III: Sitting Around the Radio (Nixon, Pat) (track 3.5)
Nixon in China: Act III: Some Men You Cannot Satisfy (Kissinger, Nixon, Pat, Chou, Chiang Ch'ing) (track 3.2)
Nixon in China: Act III: The Maos Dance (Chiang Ch'ing, Mao, Pat, Nixon, Chou) (track 3.4)
Nixon in China: Act III: When I Woke Up I Dimly Realized the Jap Bombers Had Given Us a Miss (Nixon, Pat) (track 3.7)