John Adams: Nixon in China

February. 12,2011

Rating：

8.1

Genre：

Music

Keywords：

Opera Minimalist Opera

Trailer Synopsis Cast

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.

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

Tamara Mumford as Third Secretary to Mao

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