Name: Nixon in China
Start: 2011-02-02T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2011-02-19T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Metropolitan Opera House

Organization

Singer

Soprano

Janis Kelly

Patricia Nixon

Tenor

Robert Brubaker

Mao Tse-tung

Baritone

Russell Braun

Premier Chou En Lai

Bass

James Maddalena

Nixon

Richard Paul Fink

Kissinger

Mezzo-soprano

Ginger Costa-Jackson

1. Secretary

Countertenor

Tamara Mumford

Third Secretary

Conductor

John Coolidge Adams

Stage director

Peter Sellars

Costume designer

Dunya Ramicova

Set designer

Adrianne Lobel

Kathleen Kim

Madam Mao

The Metropolitan Opera

Nixon in China

New York City

United States

Metropolitan Opera House

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.

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