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John Adams: Nixon in China
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February 12, 2011
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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.
Featured Crew
Peter Sellars
Director
Alice Goodman
Writer
John Adams
Conductor
Cast
![James Maddalena](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300//zPc0xB15ZOfvXQIFXst6hYXFsTS.jpg)
James Maddalena
Richard Nixon
![Robert Brubaker](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300//8v0lljoYTBXJLOCw1zzV0PThqPe.jpg)
Robert Brubaker
Mao Tse-tung
![Janis Kelly](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300//ozJDoQYA0Mrl0x7n2WRAXxvsoRG.jpg)
Janis Kelly
Pat Nixon
![Kathleen Kim](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300//vSjqpljEwlDCZfielCLt0T6vxkH.jpg)
Kathleen Kim
Chiang Ch’ing
![Richard Paul Fink](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300//z28yam3FiHd4XSmHVLDDTK6xZ69.jpg)
Richard Paul Fink
Henry Kissinger