"Nixon in China is an artistic triumph"

"With Opera Boston's exciting production at the Cutler Majestic Theatre, the history of the opera moves beyond the vision of the original creators into the beginning of its inheritance.   Susan Zeeman Rogers's striking set is a red silk box inside a larger box of white silk."

"The next scene is one of the strangest in opera, and it worked here because of Edmiston's staging and Susan Zeeman Rogers's minimal set design (a square box surrounded by red silks, in turn surrounded by filmy white veils, with very little furniture) balanced Gail Buckley's realistic costumes (Pat Nixon's famous red coat) with archetypal and symbolic rather than literal images."

"Opera Boston has done what seemed impossible:  delivered a new production of John Adams' 1987 Nixon in China that at least equals memories of the legendary original directed by Peter Sellars.    Indeed Friday's long-overdue Boston premiere of Adams' masterpiece at the Cutler Majestic Theatre must now rank as one of the finest evenings of opera in years."