Zaha Hadid has designed other striking buildings like the Guangzhou Opera House in China.
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His works over the years include the opera "Nixon in China."
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It has distinguished itself by the virtuosity of its rhythmic patterns (changqiang) and has exerted a dominant influence on all the more recent forms of operainChina, the Sichuan or Beijing opera.
Among many other compositions, he wrote the iconic opera Nixon inChina and the Pulitzer Prize-winning piece On the Transmigration of Souls, which commemorated Sept. 11.