Diva/Mensch pair for Mar 5, 2025
- ladiesvoices
- Mar 5, 2025
- 1 min read
I was pleased to see that the Grammy for Best Contemporary Composition went to John Adams's Nixon in China, long one of my top three favorite operas (the others are Strauss's Salome and Thomson's The Mother of Us All, though lately Wagner's Lohengrin is elbowing all three into storage). The leading ladies in that show fall neatly into Diva and Mensch:
Diva: Madame Mao
Mensch: Pat Nixon
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