tracks

Beginning
"Soldiers Of Heaven Hold The Sky"
"The People Are The Heroes Now"
Landing Of The Spirit Of '76
"Your Flight Was Smooth, I Hope?"
"News Has A Kind Of Mystery"
Beginning
"You Know We'll Meet With Your Confrere, The Democratic Candidate"
"You've Said That There's A Certain Well-Known Tree"
"Founders Come First, Then Profiteers"
"We No Longer Need Confucius"
"Like The Ming Tombs"
Beginning
"Ladies And Gentlemen, Comrades And Friends"
"Mr. Premier, Distinguished Guests"
"Cheers!"
Beginning
"Look Down At The Earth"
"This Is Prophetic!"
"At Last The Weather's Warming Up"
Beginning
"Oh What A Day I Thought I'd Die!"
"Whip Her To Death!"
Tropical Storm
"Flesh Rebels"
"I Have My Brief"
"It Seems So Strange"
"I Am The Wife Of Mao Tse-tung"
Beginning
"Some Men You Cannot Satisfy"
"I Am No One"
The Maos Dance
"Sitting Around The Radio"
"Let Us Examine What You Did"
"When I Woke Up I Dimly Realized The Jap Bombers Had Given Us A Miss..."
"I Have No Offspring"
"I Can Keep Still"
"After That The Sweat Had Soaked My Uniform"
"Peking Watches The Stars"
"You Won At Poker"
" I Am Old And I Cannot Sleep"

notes

3 x CD set in "fatboy" jewel-case and with an outer cardboard sleeve. 32pp booklet inc. full libretto.

Recorded live at the Ellie Caulkins Opera House, Denver, Colorado, from 6th to 14th June, 2008.

CD1 - Act I: 66:22
CD2 - Act II: 51:04
CD3 - Act III: 36:27

credits

Baritone Vocals [Chou En-Lai] – Chen-Ye Yuan
Baritone Vocals [Henry Kissinger] – Thomas Hammons
Baritone Vocals [Richard Nixon] – Robert Orth
Chorus – Opera Colorado Chorus
Chorus Master – Douglas Kinney Frost
Composed By – John Adams
Conductor – Marin Alsop
Design – Ben Frey
Engineer – Tim Handley
Libretto By – Alice Goodman
Liner Notes – Gregory Carpenter
Mezzo-soprano Vocals [1st Secretary] – Melissa Malde
Mezzo-soprano Vocals [2nd Secretary] – Julie Simson
Mezzo-soprano Vocals [3rd Secretary] – Jennifer DeDominici
Mixed By [Mixing Engineer] – John Newton
Orchestra – Colorado Symphony Orchestra,
Photography By [Cover] – Steve Kagan
Producer, Engineer [Sound Engineer] – Tim Handley
Soprano Vocals [Madame Mao] – Tracy Dahl
Soprano Vocals [Pat Nixon] – Maria Kanyova
Tenor Vocals [Mao Tse-Tung] – Marc Heller

companies

Recorded At – Ellie Caulkins Opera House
Phonographic Copyright (p) – Naxos Rights International Ltd.
Copyright (c) – Naxos Rights International Ltd.
Published By – Boosey & Hawkes Music Publishers, Inc.

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