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“Kathleen Kim is truly fearsome, backed up by the immaculately-costumed and compelling chorus”
Reviewed at Lincoln Center: Metropolitan Opera House, New York City on 2 December 2011
Adams, Nixon in China
Metropolitan Opera
John Adams, Conductor
Peter Sellars, Director
Kathleen Kim, Madame Mao, Chiang Ch'ing
Janis Kelly, Pat Nixon
Robert Brubaker, Mao Zedong
Russell Braun, Chou En-lai
James Maddalena, Richard Nixon
Richard Paul Fink, Henry Kissinger
The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra
The Metropolitan Opera Chorus
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