Last in the series
Madame Mao as a vindictive queen of the night and Henry Kissinger wielding a whip as a sex mad Chinese landlord - these are just two of the characters in the new opera Nixon in China based on President Nixon's 1972 visit to Peking.
In this final report from the Edinburgh Festival,
Muriel Gray also encounters a troupe of romantically inclined monkeys from France.
Title music ANDREW POPPY Cameramen TONY COWAN and COLIN GODFREY Sound Recordists
ALAN COOPER , PETER BRILL Producer KEITH ALEXANDER BBC Scotland