Nixon In China – Hungarian State Opera

Overview

In February 1972, the American president Richard Nixon went to China to meet Mao Zedong. In the context of the war in Vietnam and the cold war, this encounter marked a turning point in Chinese‑American relations. Nixon in China addresses the political thaw instigated by ping-pong diplomacy, which began by an invitation of the American table tennis players to their Chinese counterparts, one year before the presidential visit.

Cast

Kàroly Szemerèdy

Richard Nixon

Klára Kolonits

Pat Nixon

Zoltán Nyári

Mao Zedong

Rita Rácz

Jiang Qing

Azat Malik

Zhou Enlai

István Kovács

Henry Kissinger

Diána Ivett Kiss

Nancy Tang

Anna Csenge Fürjes

Second secretary to Mao

Lusine Sahakyan

Third secretary to Mao