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Nixon's Life After Vancouver


Terry Harper
Director of Production
With Production Carpenter Scott Ellis in tow, I went down to Missouri to load in the set of Nixon in China for the Lyric Opera of Kansas City, who have rented the production we created. We've been working on this rental for over a year now.
Director Michael Cavanagh had already been there for a few weeks rehearsing with the cast.

Kansas City's Nixon will be staged in the brand new Kauffman Center for Performing Arts, which just opened a few months ago This will be only the second opera in that building since its grand opening in November. 

The load-in went well, and the set arrived with only a few dings of road rash from the over 2000 mile trip in two 53' tractor trailors. It actually arrived a month early, and went right into the opera scenic shop to add a few enhancements by San Francisco Opera (SFO). SFO will be mounting the production this summer. So, at the end of the Kansas City run, the set, props, and costumes will be going right from Kansas City to San Francisco.

I am in talks with the Victoria Opera of Melbourne, Australia trying to work out a rental there early next year. Keep your fingers crossed!

Here are a few shots from Kansas City:

The Kauffman Center. Recognize the style of the sculptures? They're by Jun Kaneko,
who designed VO's most recent production of Madama Butterfly.

Another shot of the plaza outside the Kauffman Center.

Here's Scott Ellis, VO's Production Carpenter.

Another shot of Scott.

Here are Director Michael Cavanagh and Projections Designer Sean Nieuwenhuis

Michael and Sean again.

Here's Set Designer Erhard Rom with Michael.
 - Terry Harper
Director of Production

Vancouver Opera’s Nixon In China To Be Staged In San Francisco And Kansas City


Photo credit: Tim Matheson

Vancouver Opera’s production of Nixon in China will be mounted by two American opera companies during their 2011-2012 seasons. San Francisco Opera will stage the John Adams opera in June 2012. And the Lyric Opera of Kansas City will present the VO production in its inaugural season at the new Moshe Safdie-designed Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts.

To read more from the Globe and Mail, click here.

Richard Nixon, Opera Superstar



Most modern operas get performed and then forgotten—but not Nixon in China. This treatment of president Richard Nixon’s famous meeting with Mao Tse-tung, composed by Pulitzer Prize-winner John Adams and written by Alice Goodman, wasn’t performed in North America for almost two decades after its 1987 premiere. But suddenly, everyone wants to do it. The Vancouver Opera gave the work its Canadian premiere last year, and in February, it will debut at both the Canadian Opera Company and the Metropolitan Opera.

James Wright, Vancouver Opera’s general director, told Maclean’s that its production “sold more tickets than expected,” and it may rent its version to other companies. What was once dismissed as a “CNN opera” is doing better than CNN.

To read more from Macleans Magazine, click here.

The Totally Subjective, Somewhat Random Top Five Performing Arts Moments Of 2010

Vancouver Opera's Nixon in China makes it onto Janet Smith's top 5 performing arts moment of 2010!


Photo credit: Tim Matheson

In one of the strongest years in memory at our local aria purveyors—a year that saw a mind-blowing Butterfly, a luminous Lucia, and an insanely ambitious new Canadian opera—this was the show that stood out. The abstract, ever-shifting tableaux of towering podiums and propaganda posters gave it the look of an opium dream, and John Adams’s ever-driving music felt epically cinematic. Striking, challenging, and unforgettable. - Georgia Straight

Thank you Georgia Straight!

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