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'Nixon in China'

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After London, Barcelona and Paris, Woody Allen talks about his newest tribute to a European capital, "To Rome With Love.” Also on the programme, Matt Damon and Scarlett Johansson star in "We Bought a Zoo". Finally, 25 years after the opera "Nixon in China" yanked the art form into the mainstream, John Adams' landmark work gets a facelift in Paris.

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