Nixon in China (opera) - List of Arias and Musical Sequences

List of Arias and Musical Sequences

Act 1

  • Orchestral introduction
  • "Soldiers of heaven hold the sky" (Chorus)
  • "The people are the heroes now" (Chorus)
  • Arrival of the Spirit of '76 (Orchestra)
  • "Your flight was smooth, I hope?" (Chou, Nixon)
  • "News has a kind of mystery" (Nixon, Chou, Kissinger)
  • "I can't talk very well" (Mao, Nixon, Chou, Kissinger, secretaries)
  • "We no longer need Confucius" (Mao and secretaries)
  • "Like the Ming Tombs" (Nixon, Mao, Chou, Kissinger, secretaries)
  • "The night is young" (Nixon, Pat, Chou, Kissinger, chorus)
  • "Ladies and gentlemen, comrades and friends, we have begun to celebrate..." (Chou)
  • "Mr Premier, distinguished guests, I have attended many feasts..." (Nixon)
  • "This is the hour!" (Nixon, Chou, Pat, Kissinger, chorus)

Act 2

  • "I don't daydream and I don't look back" (Pat)
  • "Look down, look down" (Chorus, Pat, secretaries)
  • "This is prophetic" (Pat)
  • "At last the weather's warming up" (Pat and chorus)
  • The Red Detachment of Women:-
    • "Young as we are" (Secretaries)
    • "Oh what a day (Kissinger (as Lao Szu), chorus, secretaries)
    • "Whip her to death" (Kissinger (as Lao Szu), Pat, Nixon)
    • Tropical storm (Orchestra, Pat, Nixon)
    • "Flesh rebels" (Chorus)
    • "I have my brief" (Kissinger (as Lao Szu), Nixon)
    • "It seems so strange" (Chorus, Chiang Ch'ing, Pat, Nixon, secretaries)
  • "I am the wife of Mao Tse-tung" (Chiang Ch'ing, chorus)

Act 3

  • Orchestral introduction
  • "Some men you cannot satisfy" (Kissinger, Nixon, Pat, Chou, Chiang Ch'ing)
  • "I am no one" (Mao, Chou, Kissinger, Chiang Ch'ing, Pat, Nixon
  • "Sitting around the radio" (Nixon, Pat)
  • "Let us examine what you did" (Mao, Chiang Ch'ing, Chou)
  • "I have no offspring" (Chou, Mao, Chiang Ch'ing
  • "I can keep still" (Chiang Ch'ing, Nixon, Pat, Chou, Mao)
  • "Peking watches the stars" (Chiang Ch'ing, Mao, Chou)
  • "You won at poker" (Pat, Nixon, Chiang Ch'ing)
  • "I am old and I cannot sleep" (Chou En-lai)

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