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Great Performances | "Flesh Rebels" from Nixon in China | PBS

Duration: 03:20
Program: Great Performances at the Met #506
Broadcast Date: Jun. 1, 2011

Watch an excerpt from the ballet "The Red Detachment of Women," choreographed by Mark Morris, in the Metropolitan Opera premiere of John Adams's Nixon in China, directed by Peter Sellars and conducted by the composer.

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