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.

Half a century ago, Richard Nixon sought to split China from Russia. Fifty years later, President Trump is doing the reverse.

Washington loves to make overreaching predictions about geopolitical events, and the Trump administration’s Russia peace ...

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 ...

“I also don’t think having China and Russia at each other’s neck is good for global stability because they’re both nuclear powers.” President Richard Nixon travelled to China some 53 ...

Yun Sun, director of the China Program at the Stimson Center, explained to CNN: “Even if it’s just 30% of a ‘reverse Nixon’… that’s going to sow the seeds of doubt.” Such doubts ...