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 ...

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 ...

The stereotypical Richard Nixon isn’t part of Nixon in China, a 1987 opera by composer John Adams and librettist Alice Goodman that Opera Colorado is reviving for four performances beginning tonight.

However, that's John Adams, the minimalist modern composer, not the 2nd President of our nation. And Nixon and Mao are characters in Adams' modern opera classic, "Nixon in China," which is featured as ...