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Just Announced! MET: NIXON IN CHINA

- 7/7/2010

Just Announced!
12th opera broadcast added to 2010-2011 season!
The Met@The Music Hall
Nixon in China (Adams)
Live from Lincoln Center; Opera on screen
Saturday February 12, 2011 1pm
Libretto by Alice Goodman, directed by Peter Sellars
 
 “Shows you what opera can do to history!”  – Sellars
 
On Sale now to members with subscriptions
On sale to members without subscriptions noon Saturday July 10
On Sale to public noon Saturday July 24th

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The Music Hall, the landmark theatre in downtown Portsmouth, New Hampshire has just announced a twelfth opera broadcast – added to its 2010-2011 season: Nixon in China will be broadcast live from Lincoln Center on screen at the hall on Saturday February 12, 2011 at 1pm. Tickets for the opera are on sale now to Music Hall members holding subscriptions for the season. Tickets go on sale to members without season subscriptions noon Saturday July 10. And, tickets go on sale to the public noon Saturday July 24.
 
The Met @ The Music Hall presents the Met premiere of Pulitzer Prize-winning (and New England born and raised) composer John Adams’ most famous opera, Nixon in China, with libretto by American poet Alice Goodman and - in his Met directorial debut – directed by the controversial and indomitable Peter Sellars. It had its world premiere in Houston in 1987 and at once redefined the possibilities of the art of opera. Adams will be on the podium to conduct, and James Maddalena, who sang the role of Richard Nixon at the world premiere, brings his acclaimed interpretation to the Met. Nixon in China, Sellars says, “shows you what opera can do to history, which is to deepen it and move into its more subtle, nuanced, and mysterious corners.” Sellars’s creative team includes set designer Adrianne Lobel, costume designer Dunya Ramicova, lighting designer James F. Ingalls, choreographer Mark Morris, and sound designer Mark Grey. Nixon in China also stars: Kathleen Kim, Janis Kelly, Robert Brubaker, Russell Braun and Richard Paul Fink.

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