John Adams: Nixon in China
Seen it?2011 | 176 min | Music
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With a box office flop and almost no lasting buzz, this one could be a tough watch. Keep your phone handy.
Based on critics, audiences, awards, box office and buzz. Details below.Is it for you?
- Who'll love it
- Made for most people.
- The mood
- Easygoing.
- The pace
- Unhurried and epic, at 2 hr 56 min.
- What might put you off
- It's long: 2 hr 56 min.
John Adams’s groundbreaking work vividly brings to life US President Nixon’s 1972 visit to the People’s Republic of China. Peter Sellars’s Metropolitan Opera production, based on his 1987 world-premiere staging, features choreography by Mark Morris and stars James Maddalena as Nixon, Robert Brubaker as Chairman Mao, Janis Kelly as First Lady Pat Nixon, Russell Braun as Chinese Premier Chou En-lai, and Kathleen Kim as Chiang Ch’ing, Mao’s wife. From the pomp of the public displays to the intimacy of the protagonists most private moments, Adams, Sellars and librettist Alice Goodman reveal the real characters behind the headlines in this landmark American opera.
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- Reach & staying powerWeak
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Cast & crew
Directed by Peter Sellars
- James MaddalenaRichard Nixon
- Robert BrubakerMao Tse-tung
- Janis KellyPat Nixon
- Kathleen KimChiang Ch’ing
- Richard Paul FinkHenry Kissinger
- Russell BraunChou En-Lai
- Ginger Costa-JacksonFirst Secretary to Mao
- Teresa S. HeroldSecond Secretary to Mao
- Tamara MumfordThird Secretary to Mao
- Haruno YamazakiSolo Dancer