Hidden Bibliographic Details
| Other uniform titles: | Great performances (WNET (Television station : New York, N.Y.))
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| Other authors / contributors: | Sellars, Peter.
Bronson, Michael.
Large, Brian.
Fitzgerald, Gerald.
Maddalena, James.
Page, Carolann.
Duykers, John.
Sylvan, Sanford.
Craney, Trudy Ellen.
Hammons, Thomas.
DeMain, John.
Goodman, Alice.
Morris, Mark, 1956-
Cronkite, Walter.
Toma, Heather.
Ochoa, Steven.
WNET (Television station : New York, N.Y.)
Houston Grand Opera.
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| Notes: | A broadcast of the program Great Performances, April 15, 1988 by PBS.
Previously released on VHS in 1988 by Houston Grand Opera.
Conductor, John DeMain ; music by John Adams ; libretto by Alice Goodman ; choreography, Mark Morris.
James Maddalena, Carolann Page, John Duykers, Sanford Sylvan, Trudy Ellen Craney, Thomas Hammons.
DVD.
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| Summary: | Walter Cronkite provides historical background and narrates this grand opera depicting U.S. President Richard Nixon's historic state visit to mainland China in February 1972. Features the Houston Grand Opera Chorus, the Houston Grand Opera Orchestra, and dancers Heather Toma and Steven Ochoa.
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| Publisher's no.: | DVDWW109 House of Opera
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