Longtime Adams collaborator Peter Sellars makes his Met debut directing this groundbreaking 1987 work, an exploration of President Nixon's historic 1972 encounter with Mao and Communist China.

Besides the landing on the moon by the Apollo 11 mission in 1969 Richard Nixons meeting with Chinas leader Mao Zedong in February 1972 then represented one of the biggest media spectacles in ...

After a long wait of 36 years, the acclaimed John Adams opera “Nixon in China” is scheduled for its debut in Berlin. The reason for the considerable postponement? It appears to be related to political ...

Rehearsals are in full swing. The tents are going up outside ... “I think about the production of [John Adams’] ‘Nixon in ...

Giacomo Puccini's final opera Turandot gets a brand new ending premiered in Washington, with music by a composer known for ...

Then U.S. President Richard Nixon and then first lady Pat Nixon lead the way as they take a tour of China’s famed Great Wall, near Beijing, Feb. 24, 1972. (AP Photo) ...

The summit envisioned by the Society of Professional Journalists would be the tech equivalent of President Richard Nixon’s rapprochement with China. MANHATTAN (CN) — When President Richard Nixon ...

In recent years he has become a full-time opera director and choreographer ... last "Don Giovanni," as well as "La Boheme" and "Nixon in China." Then he returned to assistant direct "Tosca ...

The opera met with a mixed response on its 2017 ... Like its predecessors, Nixon in China, The Death of Klinghoffer and Doctor Atomic, Girls of the Golden West is based on real historical events ...

The opera-oratorio, an alternate Nativity story ... when “Doctor Atomic” had its East Coast premiere. “Nixon in China” followed in 2011 and “The Death of Klinghoffer” in 2014, decades ...