[Met Performance] CID:353786

Metropolitan Opera Premiere, New Production, American Opera

Nixon in China
Metropolitan Opera House, Wed, February 2, 2011 Broadcast
Broadcast Broadcast


Debut : John Adams, James Maddalena, Janis Kelly, Haruno Yamazaki, Kanji Segawa, Peter Sellars


In English



Nixon in China (1)
John Adams | Alice Goodman
Richard Nixon
James Maddalena [Debut]

Pat Nixon
Janis Kelly [Debut]

Henry Kissinger
Richard Paul Fink

Chou En-lai
Russell Braun

Mao Tse-tung
Robert Brubaker

Chiang Ch'ing
Kathleen Kim

Nancy T'ang
Ginger Costa-Jackson

Second Secretary
Teresa S. Herold

Third Secretary
Tamara Mumford

Dancer
Haruno Yamazaki [Debut]

Dancer
Kanji Segawa [Debut]


Composer/Conductor
John Adams [Debut]


Production
Peter Sellars [Debut]

Set Designer
Adrianne Lobel

Costume Designer
Dunya Ramicova

Lighting Designer
James F. Ingalls

Choreographer
Mark Morris

Sound Designer
Mark Grey





Production originally created by English National Opera
Nixon in China received six performances this season.
Broadcast live on Sirius XM Metropolitan Opera Radio
Streamed at metopera.org
Production photos of Nixon in China by Ken Howard/Metropolitan Opera.

FUNDING:
Production a gift of Gramma Fisher Foundation, Marshalltown, Iowa
Major Funding by Edgar Foster Daniels and Roberta and David Elliott
Additional funding by American Express and the National Endowment for the Arts

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