John Adams: Nixon in China
Movie| Title | John Adams: Nixon in China |
| User score | 7.5 |
| Release date | Feb 12, 2011 |
| Genre | Music |
| Director | Peter Sellars |
| Production country | United States of America |
| Production companies | The Metropolitan Opera |
| Run time | 176 min. |
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.
Videos
Nixon in China: Banquet Scene excerpt (Met Opera)
Feb 1, 2011
Nixon in China: Flesh Rebels excerpt (Met Opera)
Feb 1, 2011
Nixon in China: "I am the wife of Mao Tse-tung" -- Kathleen Kim (Met Opera)
Feb 1, 2011
Nixon in China: "News" -- James Maddalena (Met Opera)
Feb 1, 2011
Actors
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James Maddalena
Richard Nixon
Robert Brubaker
Mao Tse-tung
Janis Kelly
Pat Nixon
Kathleen Kim
Chiang Ch’ing
Richard Paul Fink
Henry Kissinger
Russell Braun
Chou En-Lai
Ginger Costa-Jackson
First Secretary to Mao
Teresa S. Herold
Second Secretary to Mao
Tamara Mumford
Third Secretary to Mao
Haruno Yamazaki
Solo Dancer
Kanji Segawa
Solo Dancer
MET Orchestra
