Nixon in China (Houston 1987)
Marin Alsop, Colorado Symphony, Opera Colorado Chorus, Robert Orth (Baritone), Maria Kanyova (Soprano), Thomas Hammons (Bass-baritone), Marc Heller (Tenor), Tracy Elizabeth Dahl (Soprano), Chen-Ye Yuan (Baritone), Melissa Malde (Mezzo-soprano), Julie Simson (Mezzo-soprano), Jennifer DeDominici (Mezzo-soprano)
June 2008, Denver, Ellie Caulkins Opera House Denver
Act I
- 02:441. The airfield outside Peking
- 02:452. 'Soldiers of heaven hold the sky' (Chorus)
- 02:503. 'The people are the heroes now' (Chorus)
- 02:334. Landing of the Spirit of '76
- 01:265. 'Your flight was smooth, I hope?' (Chou, Nixon)
- 07:296. 'News has a kind of mystery' (Nixon, Chou, Kissinger, Chorus)
- 04:197. 'I can't talk very well. My throat…' (Mao, Nixon, Chou, Kissinger, 3 Secretaries)
- 02:408. 'You know we'll meet with your confrere, the Democratic candidate' (Mao, Nixon, Kissinger)
- 02:489. 'You've said that there's a certain well-known tree' (Chou, Nixon, Mao, Kissinger, 3 Secretaries)
- 07:2610. 'Founders come first, then profiteers' (Mao, 3 Secretaries, Nixon, Chou, Kissinger)
- 03:0911. 'We no longer need Confucius' (Mao, 3 Secretaries)
- 05:3512. 'Like the Ming Tombs' (Nixon, 3 Secretaries, Mao, Chou, Kissinger)
- 06:2813. 'The night is young' (Nixon, Pat, Chou, Kissinger, Chorus)
- 07:0014. 'Ladies and gentlemen, comrades and friends' (Chou, Chorus, Pat, Kissinger)
- 02:4815. 'Mr. Premier, distinguished guests' (Nixon, Chorus)
- 04:1616. 'Cheers!' (Chorus, Nixon, Chou, Pat, Kissinger)
Act II
- 03:471. 'I don't daydream and don't look back' (Pat, Chorus)
- 05:512. 'Look down at the earth' (Chorus, Pat, 3 Contraltos)
- 07:583. 'This is prophetic!' (Pat)
- 03:194. 'At last the weather's warming up' (Pat, Chorus)
- 03:025. 'Young as we are' (3 Contraltos)
- 04:416. 'O what a day! I thought I'd die!' (Kissinger as Lao Szu, Chorus as Ching-hua, Pat)
- 02:587. 'Whip her to death!' (Kissinger as Lao Szu, Pat, Nixon)
- 04:578. 'Thank God you came' (Pat)
- 03:109. 'Flesh rebels' (Chorus as Militia)
- 01:1110. 'I have my brief' (Kissinger as Lao Szu, Nixon)
- 03:0211. 'It seems so strange' (Chorus as Ching-hua, Chiang Ch'ing, Pat, Nixon, 3 Secretaries)
- 07:0512. 'I am the wife of Mao Tse-tung' (Chiang Ch'ing, Chorus)
Act III
- 01:081. The last night in Peking
- 03:092. 'Some men you cannot satisfy' (Kissinger, Nixon, Pat, Chou, Chiang Ch'ing)
- 03:473. 'I am no one' (Mao, Chou, Kissinger, Chiang Ch'ing, Pat)
- 02:054. 'We'll teach these motherfuckers how to dance!' (Chiang Ch'ing, Mao, Pat, Nixon, Chou)
- 01:175. 'Sitting around the radio' (Nixon, Pat)
- 02:556. 'Let us examine what you did' (Mao, Chiang Ch'ing, Chou)
- 01:227. 'When I woke up I dimly realized the Jap Bombers had given us a miss' (Nixon, Pat)
- 02:058. 'I have no offspring' (Chou, Mao, Chiang Ch'ing)
- 03:149. 'I can keep still' (Chiang Ch'ing)
- 02:5510. 'After that –' (Nixon, Pat, Mao, Chou)
- 03:3011. 'Peking watches the stars' (Chiang Ch'ing, Mao)
- 04:0212. 'You won at poker' (Pat, Nixon, Chiang Ch'ing, Mao)
- 04:5713. 'I am old and I cannot sleep' (Chou)
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