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.

John Adamss groundbreaking work vividly brings to life US President Nixons 1972 visit to the Peoples Republic of China Peter Sellarss Metropolitan Opera production based on his 1987 worldpremiere ...

It was the impeccable arrangement of ping pong balls in a window display, and the neatly pinned sales slips on a drying line, that Pulitzer-prize winning journalist Max Frankel noticed during his ...