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Annotation:by John Adams. Inspired by Richard Nixon's visit to China in 1972.
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Annotation:about Sister Helen Prejean, a Catholic nun and advocate for abolition of the death penalty.
Annotation:by Mark-Anthony Turnage, based on the life of Anna Nicole Smith.
Annotation:by Thomas Ades, based on the real life of Margaret, Duchess of Argyll, whose scandalous divorce in the 1960s earned her the nickname "The Dirty Duchess"
Annotation:by John Adams, based on the hijacking of the passenger liner Achille Lauro by the PLO, and the resulting murder of Jewish-American passenger Leon Klinghoffer.
Annotation:by John Adams, focuses on the anxiety experienced by those at Los Alamos, while the test of the first atomic bomb was being prepared.
Annotation:by Michael Daugherty. Chamber opera inspired by music and popular culture of the 1960s and episodes in the life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.
Annotation:by Philip Glass. The second in the Portrait Trilogy. The title refers to Gandhi's concept of non-violent resistance. The text, from the Baghavad Gita, is sung in the original Sanskrit.
Annotation:The first in the thematically-related Portrait Trilogy, portraits of men whose personal vision transformed the thinking of their times through the power of ideas, rather than military force.
Annotation:Written by Michael Sturminger, music by Vivaldi, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Boccherini, and Weber, and featuring actor John Malkovich. This is about Austrian serial murderer Jack Unterweger, who became famous for his autobiography and plays, written in prison.
Annotation:Based on rags-to-riches-to-rags life of Colorado silver magnate Horace Tabor and Elizabeth (Baby) Doe.
Annotation:Based on a true story of a 14 year-old girl in New England, sent to work in the mills in the 19th century, where she was seduced and sent home pregnant.
Annotation:About Dorothy Stang, the American-born nun, murdered in the Amazon Basin of Brazil. She had worked on behalf of the poor and the environment, and had received death threats from loggers and landowners.
Annotation:by Stewart Wallace, about the assassination of gay rights icon Harvey Milk.
Annotation:by Christpher Theofanidis, about Rick Rescorla, hero of the terrorist attack on 9/11, inspired by the book by James B. Stewart
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Contemporary opera dvds and cds that are about recent or current people and events.
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