The BBC Proms - Nixon in China Reviews | 26 April 2024 |
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Nixon in ChinaThe BBC PromsNo. of reviews: 6 |
Step forward Madame Mao, rewritten as the sexy starlet behind the zealot |
10 Sep 12 / Independent on Sunday |
The crowd responds with reverence and palpable affection to the cantata-like finale of John Adams’s grand opera |
10 Sep 12 / Financial Times |
Robert Orth is an experienced Nixon and it showed |
7 Sep 12 / Opera Britannia |
A triumph for the composer/conductor, all the singers and players, and the Proms |
7 Sep 12 / Classical Source |
Utterly engrossing |
7 Sep 12 / The Guardian |
That this concert worked was thanks to superb performances all round |
7 Sep 12 / Independent |
Production details
Cast
Orth, Rivera, Finley, Oke, Rutherford, Kim, Poole, Platts, Marshall
(c) Adams (d) Curran
Performance dates
5 September 2012
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