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John Adams: Nixon in China
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Title: John Adams: Nixon in China

Release Date: 12 Feb 2011

Runtime: 2h 56m

Genre: Music

Director: The Metropolitan Opera

Production Companies: The Metropolitan Opera

Overview: 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.

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Average Vote: 7.5 (2 votes)

Cast

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