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Conductor CAST: SETTING: JosephMechavich (in order of vocal appearance) February1972 Beijing, China Director Chou En-Lai Chen-yeYuan* JamesRobinson* ACT 1 RichardNixon FrancoPomponi* Scene 7 (ai Dacianar Henry Krssinger PatrickCartizzi* The airporloutside Beijing Allen Moyer 1stSecretaryr to Mao SarahCastle Scene2 CostumeDesigner ChairmanMao's study 2nd Secretaryto Mao BuffyBaggott* James Schuette* Scene3 3rd Secretaryto Mao JenniferDeDominici* Lighting Designer The GreatHall of the People Paul Palazzo* Mao Tse-Tung ChadShelton* 20 Minute lntermission SoundDesigner Pat Nxon MariaKanyova* MadameMao Kathleen Brian Mohr* Kim ACT II t"l^^-^^^-^^L^- vt tvrcvyr aPt tcr Scene 7 Se5n Curran Mrs.Nixon views China AssociateChoreographer Scene2 Nora Brickman* An eveningat the BeijingOpera
Wig & Makeup Designer ACT ill Steven W. Bryant Scene1 ChorusMaster The lastevening in Beijing CharlesPrestinari PrtncipalPianist EmilyJarrell Urbanek ProductionStage M anager Mary Yankee Peters Supertitles Thisproduction of Nixon in-Chinais dedicatedto a specialconsortium oTgenerous oonors. RoxanneStouffer Cruz* SanDiego Opera is pleasedto recognizeNuvasive, QUALCOMM and Supertit/e Coordi nators CourtneyAnn Coyle,Attorney at Law as our CorporateProducing CharlesArthur Partnersfor Nixon in China. Marian Porter Sincerethanks also go to SycuanCasino, Phone Etiquette Sponsor and Point Loma NazareneUniversity, Supertitles Sponsor. * SanDiego Opera Debut
The runningtime is approximatelythree hours, including one intermission. LibrettobyAliceGoodman.FirstperformanceatHoustonGrandOperaonOctober22, lgsT.Productioncourtesyof HoustonGrandOpera. r-:ct crrhiort i^ 'hange. By arrangementwith HendonMusic, Inc., a Boosey& Hawkescompany. publisher and copyrightowner. Microphonesare used in this productionfor soundenhancement, as envisionedand directedby the composer.Microphones are also used for a radiore-broadcast on March21 at B:00pmon KPBS89.5FM, 89.1FM La Jolla, 97.7FM lmperial Valley or at kpbs.org.
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CHARLESF. PRESTINARI JAMESSCHUETTE ChorusMaster CostumeDesigner San Diego Opera: The PearlFishers (Acting Company debut. Recent:Dolores Claiborne Chorus Master,2008); Turandot (Acting (San FranciscoOpera), Alice in Wonderland, ChorusMaster, 2011);2012 - current,Chorus Nixon in China, The Death of Klinghoffer Master. (Opera Theatre of St. Louis),Norma Recent: 2004-2007, AssistantChorus Master (WashingtonNational Opera), Carmen (New YorkCity Opera);2007-2012, Chorus (GlimmerglassOpera), Hot L Baltimore,The Master(New YorkCity Opera) March, The Brother/SisterP/ays (Steppenwolf Theatre),Sweet Btrd of Youth (Goodman Theatre),Civil War Christmas(New York Theatre Workshop), The JAMESROBINSON Trojan Women (BrooklynAcademy of Music Next Wave Festival), Director Superior Don uts (Broadway). Company debut. Recent:Alice tn Wonderland, Champion, The Golden Ticket, The Ghosts of Versailles,The Death of Kinghoffer and Nixon in China (Opera Theatre of St. Louis,Artistic Director),Dolores Clatborne(San Francisco Opera), Dr. Sun Yat-sen(Santa Fe Opera),productions at New YorkCity Opera, SantaFe Opera, Houston Grand Opera, WashingtonNational Opera, Welsh NationalOpera, CanadianOpera Company,San FranciscoOpera, SeattleOpera.
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AlenaHerranen Ana Kovacevic HermioneLu Afterthe opera,stay for a Talk-Backwith SanDiego Opera insiders, crew and cast. HenryNelson Oncethe curtaingoes down, we'll havea few minutesto grab a drinkor visitthe NeilPodvin restroom,then we'll reconvenein the DressCircle to askquestions and hearinsider GinnyUyeno-Bridy informationon what reallyhappened at youropera performance. Or just grab a post- PeggyYamamoto operacocktail and snackin the BeverlySills Salon to roundout your evening. EthanYing
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Musiciansfor thisproduction are members of the SanDiego Symphony Orchestra seg\dm$ffiffi * $YMph{*h.,Y*Rfi$-{ffi$TreA JahjaLing, Music Director
VIOLIN VIOLA JoryHerman HORN PERCUSSION Jeff Thayer^ Chi-YuanChen MargaretJohnston+ BenjaminJaber, Principal GregoryCohen, Principal Concertmaster Principal MichaelWais DarbyHinshaw ErinDouglas Dowrey DEBORAHPATE AND KARENAND WARREN AssistantPrincipal & Andrew Watkins JOHN FORRESTCHAIR KESSLERCHAIR FLUTE Utility JisunYang NancyLochner RoseLombardo, Pr'incipal DanielleKuhlmann PIANO/CELESTE A D-:^ Aatng Principal n55VLrd^^^ ^: ^+^Cs | tt tutPal^;^^l TriciaSkye MaryBarranger ' >arantucK AssociateCon certmaster RebekahCampbell DianaMorgan* DouglasHall WesleyPrecourt JasonKarlyn* ORCHESTRA Acting Associate Wanda Law PrccoLo TRUMPET PERSONNELI\4ANAGER PrincipalI Oing Liang DianaMorgan* MicahWilkinson MagdalenaO'Neill AlexanderPalamidis ThomasMorgan Principal PrincipalIl Adam Neeley* OBOE JohnMacFerran Wilds ASSISTANT JingYan AJ Nilles^ SarahSkuster, Principal RayNowak PERSONNELMANAGER Acting Associate DorothyZeavin AndreaOverturf DouglasHall PrincipalII TROMBONE NickGrant CELLO ENGLISHHORN KyleR. Covington PRINCIPALLIBRARIAN YaoZhao Principal ""'"'r*Prinrinal A<
3** $"-XSl$ $tre$#f\i&RTISY$ SOPRANOS JenniferDeDominici MalcolmMacKenzie KarenKeltner JamesSchuette AlysonCambridge FrancoPomponi JosephMechavich EmilyFons TENORS StephenPowell LIGHTINGDESIGNERS EllieDehn PaulAppleby MorganSmith DIRECTORS ThomasC. Hase SarahGartland Ren6Barbera RicardoRivera lsabellaBywater ChristopherMaravich MariaKanyova (+anh-n f-nc+alln Chen-YeYuan lannern Fnnli: PaulPalazzo KathleenKim Sebastiende la Cruz NicholasMuni LiseLindstrom (BoyTenor) BA5SE5 JamesRobinson CHOREOGRAPHERS EmilyMagee ChadFrisque PatrickCarfizzi NoraBrickman MyrtdPapatanasiu HaroldMeers ReinhardHagen SCENERYDESIGNERS Se6nCurran AilynP6rez DanielMontenegro Kristopherlrmiter lsabellaBywater AbigailSantos Villalobos ChadShelton AshrafSewailam ElaineMcCarthy PIANISTS EnriqueToral ScottSikon AllenMoyer DorothyRandall, Principal MEZZO SOPRANOS ChristopherJames Stephens NicholasMuni EmilyJarrell Urbanek, BuffyBaggott BARITONES ChristianVan Horn Principal Qtanhrnia Rlrri-ha BernardoBermudez COSTUMEDESIGNERS GabrielArregui SarahCastle lldebrandoD'Arcangelo CONDUCTORS DavidBurdick DanielleOrlando VanessaCerda-Alonzo PaulLa Rosa DanieleCallegari lsabellaBywater CraigTerry MarianneCornetti LuisLedesma KarenKamensek Scott Marr
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BUFFYBAGGOTT MARIA KANYOVA (Soprano)2nd Secretary to Mao (Soprano)Pat Nixon Company debut. Recent:Gertrude, Hanse/ Company debut. Recent:Blanche, A and Gretel; Perfetta,Where Angels Fear to StreetcarNamed Desire(Kentucky Opera), Tread(San Jose Opera),Carmen, Carmen; Miriam, The Gospe/ of Mary Magdalene The Schoolboy,Lulu; Stephano, Romeo and (SanFrancisco Opera), Pat Nixon,Nxon in Jultette; Dryade, Ariadne auf Naxos; Flora, China(San Francisco Opera, LyricOpera La travtata;2nd Lady / 3rd Lady,The Magic of KansasCity, Canadian Opera Company, F/ute;Siegrune, Die Walkilre;Mrs. Hayes, Opera Colorado,Opera Theatreof St. Susannah(Lyric Opera of Chicago),Hennakh, Louis,Chicago Opera Theatre,Ravinia Between Two Worlds ffhe Dybbuk) (Lyric Festival),Violetta, La traviata(Lyric Opera Opera Center),Mrs. Lovett, SweeneyTodd (SpokaneOpera), of Chicago,New YorkCity Opera, PortlandOpera, UtahOpera), Cherubino, The Marriage of Figaro; Siegrune,Die Walkilre;Siel>el, Mimi, La bohdme(New York City Opera, HoustonGrand Opera Faust(Hawaii Opera Theater). buffybaggott.com The DallasOpera), Cio-Cio San, Madama But'terfly(Lyric Opera of Chicago,New OrleansOpera, Tulsa Opera, MadisonOpera, SARAH CASTLE CentralCity Opera). (MezzoSoprano) 1st Secretaryr to Mao Company appearances:Cherubino, KATHLEENKIM The Marriage of Figaro,2007, Lola, (Soprano)Madame Mao Tse-Tung Cavaller'iarusticana; Stephano, Romeo and Company appearances: Oscar,A Masked Juliet;Siebel, Faust. Recent:Flosshilde, 8a11,2014.Recent: Zerbinetta, Ariadne auf Gotterdammerung (Opera North), Naxos (Oper Frankfurt),Oscar, A Masked Marco,Marco Po/o(Netherlands Opera), Bal/(Metropolitan Opera, LyricOpera of Cherubino,The Marriageof Figaro(Seattle Chicago),Madame Mao Tse-Tung,Nxon Opera), Fox, The Cunning Little Vixen in Chtna;Zerbinetta, Artadne auf Naxos; (lsraeliOpera), Nicklausse, The Talesof Olympia,The Talesof Hoffmann;Papagena, Hoffmann(Teatro Real), Hansel, Hansel and Grete/;Ruggiero, The Magic F/ute(Metropolitan Opera), A/cina(Opera Australia), Prince Orlovsky, Die Fledermaus(Opera The Oueen of the Night, The Magic Flute Company of Philadelphia).robertgilder.colsarah-castle (BayerischeStaatsoper, Lyric Opera of Chicago,Atlanta Opera). kathleenkim.com PATRICKCARFIZZI (Baritone) HenryKrsslnger FRANCOPOMPONI Company Debut. Recent:Paolo, Simon (Baritone)Richard Nixon Boccanegra(San Francisco Opera), Brander, Company debut. Recent:Jack Rance,The La damnation de Faust(Metropolitan Opera), Girl of the Golden West (KentuckyOpera), Nourabad,The PeailFishers (Seattle Opera), Pentheus,The Bassartds;Richard Nixon, Taddeo, The ltalianGirl in Algiers ffhe Dallas Nixon in China; SweeneyTodd, Sweeney Opera), Dr. Bartolo, The Barber of Seville Todd; Carbon, Cyrano de Bergerac(Th66tre (CanadianOpera Company),Schaunard, La du Ch6telet),Hamlet, Hamlet (Gran Teatro bohdme;the Mandarin,Turandot; Masetto, del Liceu,Op6ra de Marseille),Don Don Giovanni; Haly, The ltalianGirl in Algiers; Peter Ouince, A Giovanni,Don Giovanni[he Bolshoi MtdsummerNight3 Dream(Metropolitan Opera), Talbot, Maria Opera, Op6ra NationaleMontpellier, Greek Stuarda(Canadian Opera Company),Masetto, Don Giovanni NationalOpera), Ford, Falstaff(Santa Fe Opera, The Canadian (TanglewoodMusic Festival), Don Magnifico,La Cenerentola Opera Company),Escamillo, Carmen (New YorkCity Opera, (HoustonGrand Opera),Frank, Die Fledermaus(Seattle Opera), The LosAngeles Opera, FloridaGrand Opera),Schaunard, La Leporello,Don Giovanni(Minnesota Opera), Dr. Bartolo,The bohdme; Count Dominik,Arabella; Presto, Les Mamelles de Barber of Sevilie(Opera Theatre of Saint Louis). patrickcarfizzi.net Tir6sias(Metropolitan Opera), Malatesta, Don Pasquale(Lyric JENNIFERDEDOMINICI Opera of Chicago).francopomponi.com (MezzoSoprano) 3rd Secretaryto Mao Company debut. Recent:Carmen, Carmen(Opera Theatre of the Rockies, Opera Fort Collins),Nellie Forbush,South Pacific(Piedmont Opera), Hattie Walker, Fol/ies(Opera Fort Collins),Siebel, Faust (lndianapolisOpera), Feklusha,Katya Kabanova(Santa Fe Opera),Clotilde, Norma; Hansel,Hansel and Grete/;Rosina , The Barberof Seville; 2nd Lady,The Magtc F/ute(Opera Colorado). jenn iferd edomin ici.com
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CHAD SHELTON JOSEPHMECHAVICH (TenodMao Tse-Tung Conductor Company debut. Recent:Froh, Das Company appearances: M oby-Di ck, Rheingold;Alfredo, La traviata; Don Jose, 2012. Recent'.Wuthering Herghts Recital Carmen; Pinkerton,Madama Buftertly; (FlorentineOpera), Moby-Dick (Calgary Camille,The Merry Widow; Janek,The Opera), A StreetcarNamed Desire, Makropolous Case;Tamino, The Magic La bohdme, The Marriage of Figaro, F/ute;Capitan Vere, Billy Budd; Nemorino, Carmen (KentuckyOpera, Music Director), The Elixir of Love; Nico, Lysistrata;Laurie, Romeoand Juliet (FloridaGrand Opera), Little Women; Ulises,Sa/sipuedes; Arcadio, Susannah(The FlorentineOpera), The Florenciaen el Amazonas (Houston Grand Barber of Sevil/efl//ashington National Opera),ldomeneo, ldomeneo: King of Crete;Giason e, Medea; Opera),Porgy and Bess(Deutsche Oper Berlin),Madama Don Jose, Carmen; Jack, Ihe lmportance of Being Earnest; Butterfly (New York City Opera), La bohdme (Dayton Opera), Lysander,A Midsummer Night's Dream; Tamino, The Magic Flute; Cendrillon (Aspen Music Festival),Turandot, Madama Butterfly, Guido Bardi,Eine florentinische Tragodie (Op6ra Nationalde La bohdme, La traviata,Lucia di Lammermoor, The Elixirof Love, Lorraine).chadshelton.com Aida, La Cenerentola,The Barber of Sevtlle(Opera Birmingham).
CHEN-YEYUAN BRIANMOHR (Baritone)Chou En-Lai SoundDesigner Company debut. Recent:Tonio, Pagliacci; Company debut. Recent:TheDeath of Escamillo,Carmen; Marcello, La bohdme; Klinghoffer, A Flowering Tree, On the BhaeriLitt/e Women (HoustonGrand Transmtgrattonof Souls,The Dharma at Opera), Germont, La traviata;Chou Big Sur,Ainadamar (sound design); Doctor En-Lai,Nxon in China (SanFrancisco Atomic, The Gospel According to the Other Opera), Mr. Umeya, Dr. SunYat-sen (Santa Mary (assistantsound design);Kronos Fe Opera),Michele, ll Tabarro;Schicchi, Quartet, ltzhakPerlman, Renee Fleming, Gianni Schicchi(Opera Carolina),Germont, Garth Brooks. La traviata(Shanghai Summer Music Festival),Seikyo, Tea: A Mirror of Soul(Vancouver Opera). ALLEN MOYER Set Design
Company appearances: Cosi fan tutte,1999 STEVENW. BRYANT Recent: Orteo ed Euridice(Metrooolitan Wig & MakeupDesigner Opera), Die Fledermaus(Canadian Opera Company,English National Opera), Ihe San Diego Opera: 1985 PeterGrimes, Mother of Us All, ll Trittico,La bohdme debut; 2006 - current, Wig and Makeup (New York City Opera), The Grapes of Wrath Designer. Recent:Santa Fe Opera, Opera (MinnesotaOpera), The Count of Monte Theatreof SaintLouis, New YorkCity Cristo (TheaterSt. Gallen), The Talesof Opera, The DallasOpera, TeatroColon, Hoffmann, Falstaff, Aggripina (SantaFe Opera), Carmen(Seattle RoyalOpera (Oman). World Premieres: Opera), Grey Gardens,Lysistrata Jones, The Lyons, After MissJulie, Leonard Bernstein'sA Auiet P/ace,Tobias Thurgood, Little Dog Laughed, In My Life, TwelveAngry Men, Pickert Emmeline,Tom Pasatieri'sFrau The Constant Wife, Reckless,The Man Who Had All the Luck,A Margot (costumedesign). Broadway: Julie ThousandClowns (Broadway). allenmoyerdesign.com Taymor'sGreen Bird and Styne'sGentlemen prefer Blondes
SEAN CURRAN PAUL PALAZZO Choreographer Lighting Designer Company debut. Recent Entfilhrung Company appearances: Salome(directod, aus dem Serail,Don Pasquale(Houston 2012. Recent:Salome (director - San Grand Opera), Eugene Onegin, Rigoletto (Boston FranciscoOpera, Opera Theatreof St. LyricOpera), La bohdme (Opera Colorado). Louis) Nxon in China, Street Scene (director Nlxon in China, The Barber of Seville, - Opera Theatreof St. Louis),L'Etoile, ll tro- vatore, Tosca (Minnesota Opera), Nabucco Alcina, Turandot, Haroun and the Sea of (TheDallas Opera), Hanseland Gretel Stories(choreographer - New YorkCity (LosAngeles Opera), TwelveAngry Men Opera),Artistic Director (Se5n Curran Dance (Broadway),The Elixir of Love, La bohdme (Opera Company).seancurrancompany.com Colorado).
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