"All of my operas have dealt on deep psychological levels with our American mythology," says Pulitzer Prize-winning composer John Adams, whose most famous opera has its Met premiere. "The meeting of Nixon and Mao is a mythological moment in American history." Longtime Adams collaborator Peter Sellars makes his Met debut directing this groundbreaking 1987 work, an exploration of President Nixon's historic 1972 encounter with Mao and Communist China.