John Adams: Nixon in China (2011)

Music

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.

Cast

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

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