Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Nixon in China is an opera, with music by John Adams and a libretto by Alice Goodman, about the visit of Richard Nixon to Mao Zedong in 1972. The work was commissioned by the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Houston Grand Opera and the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. It premiered at the Houston Grand Opera, October 22, 1987 in a production by Peter Sellars with choreography by Mark Morris. A recording was made in 1988 with the original cast and the Orchestra of Saint Luke’s conducted by Edo de Waart (Nonesuch 79177). This article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by fixing it. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.