Nixon in China Digital MP3 Album

The Grammy-winning original cast recording of Nixon in China, first released in 1988, ""has an eloquence not since matched,"" says the Los Angeles Times. This reissue, released to coincide with the opera's February 2011 Met premiere, includes the original, composer-supervised recording on three CDs, plus a 68-page booklet with new notes by Adams and director Peter Sellars, along with the original liner notes by librettist Alice Goodman and by Michael Steinberg, which the Times called ""a revelation.""