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product_id: 53985893
title: "History is Our Mother: Three Libretti: Nixon in China, The Death of Klinghoffer, The Magic Flute (NYRB Classics)"
brand: "goodman alice"
price: "177 Lei"
currency: RON
in_stock: true
category: "Paperback"
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# History is Our Mother: Three Libretti: Nixon in China, The Death of Klinghoffer, The Magic Flute (NYRB Classics)

**Brand:** goodman alice
**Price:** 177 Lei
**Availability:** ✅ In Stock

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- **What is this?** History is Our Mother: Three Libretti: Nixon in China, The Death of Klinghoffer, The Magic Flute (NYRB Classics) by goodman alice
- **How much does it cost?** 177 Lei with free shipping
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The first appearance of Alice Goodman's two internationally-renowned and controversial libretti, alongside one of her masterful translations.An NYRB Classics Original Nixon in China and The Death of Klinghoffer played a crucial role in bringing opera back to life as a contemporary  art form, and they have been popular—and, in the case of Klinghoffer,  highly controversial—ever since they were first staged by the director  Peter Sellars in the eighties and nineties. Both operas were conceived  from the start as collaborations between composer and writer, and their  power is due as much to the dazzlingly constructed and deeply felt  libretti of the poet Alice Goodman as they are to John Adams’s music. Nixon in China is a story, at once heroic, comic, and unnerving, of men and women  making history and of their different conceptions of what history is and  what it means to makes it. Klinghoffer, by contrast, has at its center the tragedy of an innocent man condemned at the cost of his life to play a part in history. History Is Our Mother, which takes its title from a line sung by the title character in Nixon in China,  brings Goodman’s two libretti together for the first time in book form.  Included alongside Goodman’s no less inspired translation of Emanuel Schikaneder’s famous libretto to The Magic Flute, these vivid dramas  of character and searching meditations on fate are here revealed as  among the most original, ambitious, and accomplished poetic achievements  of our time.

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- History Is Our Mother Three Libretti Nixon in China the Death of Klinghoffer the Magic Flute

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