John Adams: Nixon in China

John Adams: Nixon in China

2011 · 176 min · ★ 7.5 · Music

John Adams’s groundbreaking work vividly brings to life US President Nixon’s 1972 visit to the People’s Republic of China. Peter Sellars’s Metropolitan Opera production, based on his 1987 world-premiere staging, features choreography by Mark Morris and stars James Maddalena as Nixon, Robert Brubaker as Chairman Mao, Janis Kelly as First Lady Pat Nixon, Russell Braun as Chinese Premier Chou En-lai, and Kathleen Kim as Chiang Ch’ing, Mao’s wife. From the pomp of the public displays to the intimacy of the protagonists most private moments, Adams, Sellars and librettist Alice Goodman reveal the real characters behind the headlines in this landmark American opera.

Directed by Peter Sellars · Written by Alice Goodman

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James Maddalena Richard Nixon
Robert Brubaker Mao Tse-tung
Janis Kelly Pat Nixon
Kathleen Kim Chiang Ch’ing
Richard Paul Fink Henry Kissinger
Russell Braun Chou En-Lai
Ginger Costa-Jackson First Secretary to Mao
Teresa S. Herold Second Secretary to Mao
Tamara Mumford Third Secretary to Mao
Haruno Yamazaki Solo Dancer
Kanji Segawa Solo Dancer
MET Orchestra

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