
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.
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Peter Sellars

Janis Kelly
Pat Nixon

MET Orchestra

Richard Paul Fink
Henry Kissinger

Kathleen Kim
Chiang Ch’ing

James Maddalena
Richard Nixon

Robert Brubaker
Mao Tse-tung

Ginger Costa-Jackson
First Secretary to Mao

Russell Braun
Chou En-Lai

Teresa S. Herold
Second Secretary to Mao

Tamara Mumford
Third Secretary to Mao

Haruno Yamazaki
Solo Dancer

Kanji Segawa
Solo Dancer
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