John Adams: Nixon in China
7.5
2011
2h 56m
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.
Key Crew
Director
Peter Sellars
Producers
Victoria Warivonchik
Louisa Briccetti
Writers
Alice Goodman
Music
John Adams
Cast (12)
James Maddalena
Richard Nixon
Robert Brubaker
Mao Tse-tung
