Acts of bravado on the political stage with Nixon in China

Wide Open Opera’s ‘Nixon in China’ commemorates the late American president’s meeting with Mao Zedong in 1972, writes Alan O’Riordan.

WIDE Open Opera is not yet two years in existence, but it already has an impressive CV. The Dublin-based company kicked off with Tristan und Isolde in 2012.

A co-production of Gerald Barry’s weird and wonderful take on The Importance of Being Earnest was staged last year, along with The Alma Fetish, a new opera by Raymond Deane and Gavin Kostick.