John Adams: Nixon in China
2011 · 176 MIN · IMDB 8.1 · 44 VOTES · DIR. Peter Sellars
Overview
John Adams’s groundbreaking work vividly brings to life US President Nixon’s 1972 visit to the People’s Republic of China. Peter Sellars’s Metropolitan Opera production, based on his 1987 world-premiere staging, features choreography by Mark Morris and stars James Maddalena as Nixon, Robert Brubaker as Chairman Mao, Janis Kelly as First Lady Pat Nixon, Russell Braun as Chinese Premier Chou En-lai, and Kathleen Kim as Chiang Ch’ing, Mao’s wife. From the pomp of the public displays to the intimacy of the protagonists most private moments, Adams, Sellars and librettist Alice Goodman reveal the real characters behind the headlines in this landmark American opera.
Dialogue Timeline — 802 lines
A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE
00:06:09 Soldiers of heaven hold the sky
00:15:12 ...one for whom all travel is a penance now...
00:20:50 As I look down the road I know America is good at heart.
00:25:29 Those books of mine aren't anything.
00:28:10 Who's in the right you mean.
00:32:55 Founders come first, then profiteers.
00:37:55 ...the world to come has come, is theirs.
00:44:06 How they inspire our poor dry bones...
00:49:38 Along, long trail unwinding towards my dreams...
00:53:39 Huddled for warmth you mean?
01:00:25 We toast that endless province whose frontier we occupy from hour to hour.
01:07:15 Everyone listen! Listen!
01:28:30 The symbol of our party, prize of our success.
01:34:53 Let the eternal plan resume.
01:42:06 I was meant to come here.
01:48:12 Scented and greased, a sacrifice...
01:58:38 I'd like to give his God-damned whip a crack!
02:06:25 Forward Red Troupe!
02:11:47 ...and for his sake whose wreaths are heavy round my neck...
02:25:26 Through that door.
02:29:55 You told me, Dick.
02:34:15 I never doubted you'd come back. I always knew.
02:40:42 Go on dear. Don't let me interrupt.
02:45:44 I found the smell of burgers on the grill made strong men cry.