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John Adams: Nixon in China 2011

John Adams’s opera dramatizes President Nixon’s 1972 visit to China. Peter Sellars’s Metropolitan Opera production, based on his 1987 premiere, includes Mark Morris’s choreography and stars James Maddalena as Nixon, Robert Brubaker as Chairman Mao, Janis Kelly as Pat Nixon, Russell Braun as Premier Zhou En‑lai and Kathleen Kim as Jiang Qing. The work moves from grand public ceremonies to intimate private moments, exposing the human side behind the headlines.

John Adams’s opera dramatizes President Nixon’s 1972 visit to China. Peter Sellars’s Metropolitan Opera production, based on his 1987 premiere, includes Mark Morris’s choreography and stars James Maddalena as Nixon, Robert Brubaker as Chairman Mao, Janis Kelly as Pat Nixon, Russell Braun as Premier Zhou En‑lai and Kathleen Kim as Jiang Qing. The work moves from grand public ceremonies to intimate private moments, exposing the human side behind the headlines.

Does John Adams: Nixon in China have end credit scenes?

No!

John Adams: Nixon in China does not have end credit scenes. You can leave when the credits roll.

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