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John Adams - Nixon in China: News Has a Kind of Mystery.
John Adams - Nixon in China - I am the wife of Mao Tse-tung - Kathleen Kim
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Kathleen Kim as Madame Mao in Met's production of John Adams opera Nixon in China. February 2011.
The Chairman Dances - John Adams
John Adams' The Chairman Dances, with images from the revolutionary Chinese ballet, The Red Detachment of Women. The ballet was used as inspiration for the third act dance scenes in Adams' opera, Nixon In China.
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The 2011 Metropolitan Opera premiere production of John Adams’s groundbreaking opera Nixon in China, conducted by the composer himself, can be seen in full for free from tonight, April 1, at 7:30pm ET, through April 2 at 6:30pm, as the latest Nightly Opera Stream at metopera.org. And you can listen to the 1988 Grammy-winning original cast recording now here.