Orchestra Of St. Luke’s
Chorus Of St. Luke’s
Conductor: Edo De Waart
Libretto: Alice Goodman
Original production directed by Peter Sellars
Chou En-lai: Sanford Sylvan
Henry Kissinger: Thomas Hammons
Richard Nixon: James Maddalena
Nancy T’ang (First Secretary To Mao): Mari Opatz
Second Secretary: Stephanie Friedman
Third Secretary: Marion Dry
Chiang Ch’ing (Madame Mao Tse-tung): Trudy Ellen Craney
Pat Nixon: Carolann Page
Mao Tse-tung: John Duykers
Time: February 1972.
Place: In and around Beijing (then known as Peking)