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John Adams: Nixon in China

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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.

Rating: 7.5

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Mumford

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Haruno

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Kanji

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James

Maddalena

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Janis

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Russell

Braun

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Teresa

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Tamara

Mumford

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Haruno

Yamazaki

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Kanji

Segawa

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MET

Orchestra

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James

Maddalena

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Robert

Brubaker

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Janis

Kelly

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Kathleen

Kim

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Richard

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