Photos: L.A. Phil’s ‘Nixon In China’

Ryan McKinny as Richard Nixon, left, Joélle Harvey as Pat Nixon, John Matthew Myers as Mao, and Peter Coleman-Wright.

John Matthew Myers as Mao, left, and Ryan McKinny as Richard Nixon.

Actors as Chinese communists perform with the LA Philharmonic as a large projection screen shows TV footage from China of Air Force One arriving at the airport in a performance of “Nixon In China.”

John Adams, center bottom, conducts the Los Angeles Master Chorale with the L.A. Philharmonic.