I am the wife of Mao
Opera details:
Opera title: | Nixon in China |
Composer: | John Coolidge Adams |
Language: | English |
Synopsis: | Nixon in China Synopsis |
Libretto: | Nixon in China Libretto |
Translation(s): | Not entered yet. |
Aria details:
Type: | aria |
Role(s): | Chiang Ch'ing |
Voice(s): | Soprano |
Act: | 2.13 |
| Previous scene: | It seems so strange |
| Next scene: | Some men you cannot satisfy |
Nixon in China: "I am the wife of Mao Tse-tung" -- Kathleen Kim (Met Opera)
Singer: Kathleen KimExcerpt from the final dress rehearsal of John Adams' "Nixon in China" at the Met Opera on January 31, 2011.
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Production: Peter Sellars
Conductor: John Adams
The Metropolitan Opera
2010-11 Season
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Libretto/Lyrics/Text/Testo:
HUNG CHIANG CH'INGI am the wife of Mao Tse-tung
who raised the weak above the strong.
When I appear the people hang
upon my words, and for his sake
whose wreaths are heavy round my neck
I speak according to the book.
When did the Chinese people last
expose its daughters? At the breast
of history I sucked and pissed,
thoughtless and heartless, red and blind,
I cut my teeth upon the land
and when I walked my feet were bound
on revolution. Let me be
a grain of sand in heaven's eye
and I shall taste eternal joy.
(The people express their bitterness against
counter-revolutionary elements)
English Libretto or Translation:
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