One character in this opera sings "we fight, we die / and if we do not fight, we die" in an aria titled "I Am No One."
One character in this opera sings "we fight, we die / and if we do not fight, we die" in an aria titled "I Am No One." This opera ends with one character singing "How much of what we did was good?", and its second act includes a performance of one of the eight model plays. Its title character sings "News Has a Kind of Mystery" after a giant plane descends from the ceiling in its first scene. With a libretto written by Alice Goodman, its third act features a foxtrot later adapted into the Chairman Dances. Including characters like the soprano Pat and the baritone Chou En-lai, for 10 points, name this opera by John Adams about a president's visit to a Communist country.
One character in this opera sings "we fight, we die / and if we do not fight, we die" in an aria titled "I Am No One."
Nixon In China