Opera Colorado Chorus – Nixon In China

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Label:	Naxos – 8.669022-24
Series:	American Opera Classics
Format:	3 x CD
Country:	US
Released:	2009
Genre:	Classical
Style:	Opera

Tracklist

		Act I, Scene 1
1-1		Beginning
1-2		"Soldiers Of Heaven Hold The Sky"
1-3		"The People Are The Heroes Now"
1-4		Landing Of The Spirit Of '76
1-5		"Your Flight Was Smooth, I Hope?"
1-6		"News Has A Kind Of Mystery"
		Act I, Scene 2
1-7		Beginning
1-8		"You Know We'll Meet With Your Confrere, The Democratic Candidate"
1-9		"You've Said That There's A Certain Well-Known Tree"
1-10		"Founders Come First, Then Profiteers"
1-11		"We No Longer Need Confucius"
1-12		"Like The Ming Tombs"
		Act I, Scene 3
1-13		Beginning
1-14		"Ladies And Gentlemen, Comrades And Friends"
1-15		"Mr. Premier, Distinguished Guests"
1-16		"Cheers!"
		Act II, Scene 1
2-1		Beginning
2-2		"Look Down At The Earth"
2-3		"This Is Prophetic!"
2-4		"At Last The Weather's Warming Up"
		Act II, Scene 2
2-5		Beginning
2-6		"Oh What A Day I Thought I'd Die!"
2-7		"Whip Her To Death!"
2-8		Tropical Storm
2-9		"Flesh Rebels"
2-10		"I Have My Brief"
2-11		"It Seems So Strange"
2-12		"I Am The Wife Of Mao Tse-Tung"
		Act III
3-1		Beginning
3-2		"Some Men You Cannot Satisfy"
3-3		"I Am No One"
3-4		The Maos Dance
3-5		"Sitting Around The Radio"
3-6		"Let Us Examine What You Did"
3-7		"When I Woke Up I Dimly Realized The Jap Bombers Had Given Us A Miss..."
3-8		"I Have No Offspring"
3-9		"I Can Keep Still"
3-10		"After That The Sweat Had Soaked My Uniform"
3-11		"Peking Watches The Stars"
3-12		"You Won At Poker"
3-13		" I Am Old And I Cannot Sleep"

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Recorded At – Ellie Caulkins Opera House
Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Naxos Rights International Ltd.
Copyright © – Naxos Rights International Ltd.
Published By – Boosey & Hawkes Music Publishers, Inc.

Credits

Baritone Vocals [Chou En-Lai] – Chen-Ye Yuan
Baritone Vocals [Henry Kissinger] – Thomas Hammons
Baritone Vocals [Richard Nixon] – Robert Orth
Chorus – Opera Colorado Chorus
Chorus Master – Douglas Kinney Frost
Composed By – John Adams
Conductor – Marin Alsop
Design – Ben Frey
Engineer – Tim Handley
Libretto By – Alice Goodman
Liner Notes – Gregory Carpenter
Mezzo-soprano Vocals [1st Secretary] – Melissa Malde
Mezzo-soprano Vocals [2nd Secretary] – Julie Simson
Mezzo-soprano Vocals [3rd Secretary] – Jennifer DeDominici
Mixed By [Mixing Engineer] – John Newton
Orchestra – Colorado Symphony Orchestra*
Photography By [Cover] – Steve Kagan
Producer, Engineer [Sound Engineer] – Tim Handley
Soprano Vocals [Madame Mao] – Tracy Dahl
Soprano Vocals [Pat Nixon] – Maria Kanyova
Tenor Vocals [Mao Tse-Tung] – Marc Heller

Notes

3 x CD set in "fatboy" jewel-case and with an outer cardboard sleeve. 32pp booklet inc. full libretto.

Recorded live at the Ellie Caulkins Opera House, Denver, Colorado, from 6th to 14th June, 2008.

CD1 - Act I: 66:22
CD2 - Act II: 51:04
CD3 - Act III: 36:27