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Nixon in China (opera)Year: 1985-87
Genre: Opera
Pr. Instrument: Voice
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Act 1
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Scene 1
- 1.Beginning
- 2.Soldiers of Heaven Hold the Sky
- 3.The People Are the Heroes Now
- 4.Landing of the Spirit of '76
- 5.Your Flight Was Smooth, I Hope?
- 6.News Has a Kind of Mystery
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Scene 2
- 1.Beginning
- 2.You Know We'll Meet with Your Confrère, The Democratic Candidate
- 3.You've Said That There's a Certain Well-known Tree
- 4.Founders Come First, then Profiteers
- 5.We No Longer Need Confucius
- 6.Like the Ming Tombs
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Scene 3
- 1.Beginning
- 2.Ladies and Gentlemen, Comrades and Friends
- 3.Mr. Premier, Distinguished Guests
- 4.Cheers!
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Act 2
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Scene 1
- 1.Beginning
- 2.Look Down at the Earth
- 3.Pat's aria: This is Prophetic!
- 4.At Last the Weather's Warming Up
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Scene 2
- 1.Beginning
- 2.Oh What a Day I Thought I'd Die!
- 3.Whip Her to Death!
- 4.Tropical Storm
- 5.Flesh Rebels
- 6.I Have My Brief
- 7.It Seems So Strange
- 8.I Am The Wife of Mao Tse-tung
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Act 3
- 1.Beginning
- 2.Some Men You Cannot Satisfy
- 3.I Am No One
- 4.The Maos Dance
- 5.Sitting Around The Radio
- 6.Let Us Examine What You Did
- 7.When I Woke Up I Dimly Realized The Jap Bombers Had Given Us A Miss...
- 8.I Have No Offspring
- 9.I Can Keep Still
- 10.After That The Sweat Had Soaked My Uniform
- 11.Peking Watches The Stars
- 12.You Won at Poker
- 13.I Am Old and I Cannot Sleep
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