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"Let Us Not Be Misled": A Critical Appraisal of Characterization in John Adams's Nixon in China
This thesis aims to examine and appraise the characterization of the major historical characters in John Adams’s opera Nixon in China: Richard Nixon, Pat Nixon, Mao Tse-tung, Chiang Ch’ing, Chou En-lai and Henry Kissinger. The first chapter outlines the motivations and intentions of Adams, Goodman, …
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Deconstruction of American Exceptionalism in the Collaborative Works of John Adams and Peter Sellars
… by academics and non-academics alike as inaccessible high art, even by humanities scholars who commonly appreciate the classics in their own field. In order to overcome that stigmatization, I have chosen two seminal American operas by composer John Adams—1987's <i>Nixon in China</i> and …