{"product_id":"9781681370644","title":"History is Our Mother: Three Libretti: Nixon in China, The Death of Klinghoffer, The Magic Flute","description":"\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctbody\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor\/Contributor(s):\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003eGoodman, Alice; Williams, James\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eNYRB Classics\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDate:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e7\/18\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBinding:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003ePaperback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003eNEW\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe first appearance of Alice Goodman's two internationally-renowned and controversial libretti, alongside one of her masterful translations.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn NYRB Classics Original\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eNixon in China\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Death of Klinghoffer\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eKlinghoffer\u003c\/i\u003e,  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. \u003ci\u003eNixon in China\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003ci\u003eKlinghoffer\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. \u003ci\u003eHistory Is Our Mother\u003c\/i\u003e, which takes its title from a line sung by the title character in \u003ci\u003eNixon in China\u003c\/i\u003e,  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 \u003ci\u003eThe Magic Flute\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.","brand":"NYRB Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43374876950783,"sku":"9781681370644","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0452\/0886\/2873\/files\/9781681370644_s600x595.jpg?v=1782147481","url":"https:\/\/massivebookshop.com\/products\/9781681370644","provider":"MASSIVE BOOKSHOP","version":"1.0","type":"link"}