Research Catalog

Title

Nixon in China [electronic resource] : Works & Process at the Guggenheim / performance series producer, Mary Sharp Cronson ; performance series co-producer, Tom Roush ; video produced by David Gordon ; video directed by Scott Fraser ; performance directed by Peter Sellars; music by John Adams; libretto by Alice Goodman.

Publication

1986.

Details

Additional Authors

• Sellars, Peter
• Adams, John, 1947-
• Goodman, Alice
• DeMain, John
• Feinberg, Alan
• Maddalena, James
• Sylvan, Sanford
• Duykers, John
• Cronson, Mary Sharp
• Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

Description

1 streaming video file (28 min.) : sd., col.

Summary

Excerpts from the opera Nixon in China are interspersed with comments from the creators, who discuss the origin and development of the work; the historical events on which it is based (President Nixon's 1972 trip to China); their artistic goals and views on accessability vs. obscurity in art. Excerpts from the opera include act 1, scene 1 ("handshake aria") and act I, scene 2.

Donor/Sponsor

Gift of Works & Process at the Guggenheim, Mary Sharp Cronson, producer.

Series Statement

Works & Process at the Guggenheim Collection ; 011

Uniform Title

Works and process at the Guggenheim.

Subject

• Adams, John, 1947-
• Nixon, Richard M. 1913-1994 > Drama
• Mao, Zedong, 1893-1976 > Drama
• Operas

Genre/Form

• Music.
• Video.

Access (note)

• Patrons can access streaming video file online only at the Library for the Performing Arts.

Event (note)

• Recorded as part of the Works & Process performance series at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, on Nov. 2 and 3, 1986.

Funding (note)

• With support from The Peter Jay Sharp Foundation, StreamingCulture at the Graduate Center, The City University of New York digitized and authored the DVDs of the video archive of Works & Process at the Guggenheim.

Call Number

*MGZIDF 2851

OCLC

NYPG06-F634

Title

Nixon in China [electronic resource] : Works & Process at the Guggenheim / performance series producer, Mary Sharp Cronson ; performance series co-producer, Tom Roush ; video produced by David Gordon ; video directed by Scott Fraser ; performance directed by Peter Sellars; music by John Adams; libretto by Alice Goodman.

Imprint

1986.

Country of Producing Entity

U.S.

Series

Works & Process at the Guggenheim Collection ; 011

Works and process at the Guggenheim.

Performer

Interviewees: Peter Sellars, John Adams, Alice Goodman, John DeMain. Excerpts from Nixon in China performed by James Maddalena (Nixon), Sanford Sylvan (Chou En Lai), John Duykers (Mao Tse Tung), James Ramlet (Henry Kissinger). Pianist: Alan Feinberg.

Event

Recorded as part of the Works & Process performance series at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, on Nov. 2 and 3, 1986.

Funding

With support from The Peter Jay Sharp Foundation, StreamingCulture at the Graduate Center, The City University of New York digitized and authored the DVDs of the video archive of Works & Process at the Guggenheim.

Restricted Access

Patrons can access streaming video file online only at the Library for the Performing Arts.

Local Note

Former call number: *MGZIDVD 5-1011

Connect to:

NYPL Digital Collections

Added Author

Sellars, Peter. Director

Sellars, Peter. Interviewee

Adams, John, 1947- composer.

Adams, John, 1947- interviewee.

Adams, John, 1947- Nixon in China.

Goodman, Alice. Librettist

Goodman, Alice. Interviewee

DeMain, John. Conductor

DeMain, John. Interviewee

Feinberg, Alan. Instrumentalist

Maddalena, James. voc

Sylvan, Sanford. voc

Duykers, John. voc

Cronson, Mary Sharp. Producer

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.

Research Call Number

*MGZIDF 2851