The European premiere of the opera by the contemporary American composer John Adams, with libretto by Peter Sellars, in a co-production of the San Francisco Opera (where the work premiered), the Lyric Opera of Chicago, and De Nederlandse Opera. The plot focuses on the great stress and anxiety experienced by those at Los Alamos while the test of the first atomic bomb (the "Trinity" test) was being prepared.
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Lucifer incites Heaven’s wrath by dispatching train cars of condemned souls a-crashin’ through the pearly gates.
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Thrilling Act 1 finale ("Batter my heart") from John Adams' Doctor Atomic
Here's the end of Act 1 from John Adam's acclaimed opera Doctor Atomic: Oppenheimer's intense and exciting aria "Batter my heart". It's wonderfully sung by ...
Doctor Atomic: The Making of Doctor Atomic
Peter Gelb general manager of the Metropolitan Opera moderates a 2008 discussion at a CUNY symposium about his decision to stage John Adams 2005 ...
Adams: Doctor Atomic (De Nederlandse Opera)
The longing to overcome human boundaries led the physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer to begin an experiment that formed a threat to the whole of humanity and ...
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