History is Our Mother: Three Libretti: Nixon in China, The

History is Our Mother: Three Libretti: Nixon in China, The Death of Klinghoffer, The Magic Flute (NYRB Classics)

The first appearance of Alice Goodman's two internationally-renowned and controversial libretti, alongside one of her masterful translations.

An NYRB Classics Original

Nixon in China and The Death of Klinghoffer played a crucial role in bringing opera back to life as a contemporary art form, and they have been popularâ€”and, in the case of Klinghoffer, highly controversialâ€”ever since they were first staged by the director Peter Sellars in the eighties and nineties. Both operas were conceived from the start as collaborations between composer and writer, and their power is due as much to the dazzlingly constructed and deeply felt libretti of the poet Alice Goodman as they are to John Adamsâ€™s music. Nixon in China is a story, at once heroic, comic, and unnerving, of men and women making history and of their different conceptions of what history is and what it means to makes it. Klinghoffer, by contrast, has at its center the tragedy of an innocent man condemned at the cost of his life to play a part in history. History Is Our Mother, which takes its title from a line sung by the title character in Nixon in China, brings Goodmanâ€™s two libretti together for the first time in book form. Included alongside Goodmanâ€™s no less inspired translation of Emanuel Schikanederâ€™s famous libretto to The Magic Flute, these vivid dramas of character and searching meditations on fate are here revealed as among the most original, ambitious, and accomplished poetic achievements of our time.
Country USA
Brand New York Review Books
Manufacturer NYRB Classics
Binding Paperback
Color Navy
ReleaseDate 2017-07-18
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781681370644

Country	USA
Brand	New York Review Books
Manufacturer	NYRB Classics
Binding	Paperback
Color	Navy
ReleaseDate	2017-07-18
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781681370644

History is Our Mother: Three Libretti: Nixon in China, The Death of Klinghoffer, The Magic Flute (NYRB Classics)

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