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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.
February 12, 2011
The Metropolitan Opera
12 people
James Maddalena
Richard Nixon
Acting
Robert Brubaker
Mao Tse-tung
Acting
Janis Kelly
Pat Nixon
Acting
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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Teresa S. Herold
Second Secretary to Mao
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Tamara Mumford
Third Secretary to Mao
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Haruno Yamazaki
Solo Dancer
Acting
Kanji Segawa
Solo Dancer
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MET Orchestra
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