Date of Award
4-22-2011
Degree Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Honors Thesis
Department
Music
First Advisor
James R. Briscoe
Abstract
Reviews of these later performances indicate resurgence in popularity and a greater critical grasp of the work's fundamental dramatic and musical dynamic. In the intervening years since the work's premiere, the power negative feelings associated with its principle characters have dimmed in cultural memory, allowing for the overarching statement of the opera to be foremost in the audience's minds. Elements of the production first analyzed as politically naive, have been reexamined as insightful, if not prophetic.
Recommended Citation
Brege, Casey Jo, "Reception and Influence of a Postmodernist Opera : John Adams' Nixon in China , 1987-2011" (2011). Undergraduate Honors Thesis Collection. 105.
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/ugtheses/105