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The Metropolitan Opera: Nixon in China

(No longer in theaters)
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  • Director: John Adams   Cast: Kathleen Kim, Janis Kelly, Robert Brubaker, Russell Braun, James Maddalena
  • Running Time: 255 minutes
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Program

Distributor

NCM/Fathom

Release Date

Feb 12, 2011

Release Notes

Limited

Synopsis

NCM Fathom brings the fifth season of the Metropolitan Opera's Peabody and Emmy Award-winning series The Met: Live in HD in movie theaters nationwide. The broadcast of Adams's opera Nixon in China will be presented live for only one day on Saturday, February 12, 2011 at 1 PM ET / 10 AM PT in select movie theaters. Acclaimed director and longtime Adams collaborator Peter Sellars makes his Met debut with this groundbreaking 1987 work, an exploration of the human truths beyond the headlines surrounding President Nixon's 1972 encounter with Communist China. Baritone James Maddalena stars in the title role.