For 10 points, name this minimalist composer who described a U.S. president's visit abroad in his opera Nixon in China.
In one of this composer's operas, Kumudha becomes stuck in half-tree, half-human form. This composer of A Flowering Tree opened an opera by stating "Matter can be neither created nor destroyed," and another of his operas has been called anti-Semitic for portraying the seizing of the Achille Lauro. This composer of (*) The Death of Klinghoffer and Doctor Atomic wrote an opera in which the title character flies in the Spirit of ‘76 and listens to a woman sing "I am the Wife of Mao Tse-tung." For 10 points, name this minimalist composer who described a U.S. president's visit abroad in his opera Nixon in China.
In one of this composer's operas, Kumudha becomes stuck in half-tree, half-human form.
John Coolidge Adams