Nixon in China
Recorded in New York earlier this month, Nixon in China, with a libretto by Alice Goodman, explores President Nixon’s 1972 encounter with Mao Tse-tung and Communist China. Adams’s work, says Sellars, “shows you what opera can do to history, which is to deepen it and move into its more subtle, nuanced and mysterious corners.” James Maddalena, who sang the role of Richard Nixon at the world premiere and on the Nonesuch original recording, reprises his interpretation here, opposite Janis Kelly as Pat Nixon and Robert Brubaker as Mao Tse-tung. Kathleen Kim is Mao’s wife Chiang Ch’ing and Russell Braun portrays Chou En-lai. Richard Paul Fink is Henry Kissinger. Sellars’s creative team includes set designer Adrianne Lobel, costume designer Dunya Ramicova, lighting designer James F. Ingalls, choreographer Mark Morris, and sound designer Mark Grey.
Broadcast Details: 7.05pm, Sunday 27 February 2011 on ABC Classic FM
Opera in three acts to a Libretto by Alice Goodman.
New production by Peter Sellars and conducted by John Adams
Cast includes:
Richard Nixon: James Maddalena, baritone
Pat Nixon: Janis Kelly, soprano
Chou En-lai: Russell Braun, baritone
Mao Tse-tung: Robert Brubaker, tenor
Henry Kissinger: Richard Paul Fink, bass
Chiang Ch'ing: Kathleen Kim, soprano
Metropolitan Opera Chorus and Orchestra
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By arrangement with the Toll Brothers-Metropolitan Opera International Radio Network
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