John Adams: Nixon in China

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.

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  James Maddalena

  Richard Nixon
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  Robert Brubaker

  Mao Tse-tung
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  Janis Kelly

  Pat Nixon
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  Kathleen Kim

  Chiang Ch’ing
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  Richard Paul Fink

  Henry Kissinger
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  Russell Braun

  Chou En-Lai
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  Ginger Costa-Jackson

  First Secretary to Mao
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  Tamara Mumford

  Third Secretary to Mao