Nixon in China
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Feb 2, 2011
Closed Feb 19, 2011
Opened Feb 2, 2011
Closed Feb 19, 2011
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Running Time:
3hr. 40min.
(includes 2 intermission)
3hr. 40min.
(includes 2 intermission)
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"All of my operas have dealt on deep psychological levels with our American mythology," says Pulitzer Prize-winning composer John Adams, whose most famous opera has its Met premiere. "The meeting of Nixon and Mao is a mythological moment in world history, particularly American history." Acclaimed director and longtime Adams collaborator Peter Sellars makes his Met debut with this groundbreaking 1987 work, an exploration of the human truths beyond the headlines surrounding President Nixon's historic 1972 encounter with Mao and Communist China. Baritone James Maddalena stars as Nixon, a role he created to widespread acclaim. Nixon in China, Sellars says, "shows you what opera can do to history, which is to deepen it and move into its more subtle, nuanced, and mysterious corners."
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It's taken nearly a quarter century for the John Adams-Alice Goodman historical opera
Nixon in China to make a deserved and thrilling bow at the Metropolitan Opera House. Fortunately, this remarkable work has finally arrived there -- in the English National Opera production, directed with all-stops-out gusto by Peter Sellars and featuring the first-rate contributions of choreographer Mark Morris, designer Adrianne Lobel (who has assiduously based the sets on myriad photo-journalists' accounts) and costume designer Dunya Ramicova.
Goodman's narrative focuses on then U.S. President Richard Nixon (James Maddalena) and wife Pat Nixon (Janis Kelly); Chinese leader Mao Tse-tung (Robert B[...]