It's been three decades since the Houston Grand Opera presented John Adams' "Nixon in China," the company's beloved world premiere that changed not only how modern political operas were viewed but ...

On Saturday the high-definition broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera will be John Adams' "Nixon in China." The performance begins at noon at the AMC Town Plaza 5 in Cape Girardeau. This opera ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. On 22 September 2024, the Eiffel Art Studios of the Hungarian State Opera ...

In 1972, President Richard Nixon made the historic journey to meet Chinese leader Mao Zedong in part paved by a U.S. pingpong delegation that traveled to Beijing a year earlier. The U.S. and China had ...

In February 1972, the American president Richard Nixon went to China to meet Mao Zedong. In the context of the war in Vietnam and the cold war, this encounter marked a turning point in ...

"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 ...

Only Richard Nixon could go to China, but President Trump may follow in his footsteps. In the past week, the administration has softened its rhetoric about China while taking a noticeably harder line ...

President Trump is pulling a “reverse Nixon” and putting a wedge between Russia and China after his predecessor “drove” Beijing and Moscow together, US Chief of Protocol Monica Crowley explained in ...