But how is it going to be remembered?” The show, he stresses, is much more than a dry chronicling of the historic visit between Nixon and Mao Zedong (sung by baritone Robert Orth and heldentenor ...

These initial discussions would pave the way for Nixon’s 1972 summit with Mao and China’s communist leadership. Today — albeit to a much smaller degree than the Soviet Union in its time ...

Nixon, a World War II veteran and staunch opponent of communism, met with Chinese Communist Party leaders Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai during the visit — a meeting widely seen as opening a new era ...

Like Washington and Beijing before, Moscow and Beijing now are bound by a common adversary: the U.S. and the international order it upholds.