How long is The Metropolitan Opera: Nixon in China?

The Metropolitan Opera: Nixon in China is 4 hr 15 min long.

What is The Metropolitan Opera: Nixon in China about?

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. “All of my operas have dealt on deep psychological levels with our American mythology,” says composer John Adams, who conducts the Met premiere of his most famous opera. “The meeting of Nixon and Mao is a mythological moment in world history, particularly American history.” 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.

The Metropolitan Opera: Nixon in China

Name: The Metropolitan Opera: Nixon in China
Genre: Concert/Special Events
Released: 2011-02-12
Duration: 255

NR 4 hr 15 min

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How long is The Metropolitan Opera: Nixon in China?: The Metropolitan Opera: Nixon in China is 4 hr 15 min long.

What is The Metropolitan Opera: Nixon in China about?: 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. “All of my operas have dealt on deep psychological levels with our American mythology,” says composer John Adams, who conducts the Met premiere of his most famous opera. “The meeting of Nixon and Mao is a mythological moment in world history, particularly American history.” 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.