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John Adams: Nixon in China (2011)
John Adams’s groundbreaking work vividly brings to life President Nixon’s 1972 visit to communist China. Peter Sellars’s Met 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.
Updated May 31 2020
Cast
James Maddalena
Richard Nixon
Richard Paul Fink
Henry Kissinger
Janis Kelly
Pat Nixon
Tamara Mumford
Third Secretary to Mao
Russell Braun
Chou En-Lai
Crew
John Adams
Music Director
John Adams
Original Music Composer
Peter Sellars
Director
Alice Goodman
Writer
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