Adams: Doctor Atomic

J. Robert Oppenheimer: Gerald Finley Kitty Oppenheimer: Jessica Rivera General Leslie Groves: Eric Owens Edward Teller: Richard Paul Fink Jack Hubbard: James Maddalena Robert Wilson: Thomas Glenn Captain James Nolan: Jay Hunter Morris Pasqualita: Ellen Rabiner
Chorus of De Nederlandse Opera; Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra; Musical Director: Lawrence Renes; Stage Director: Peter Sellars

John Adams: Doctor Atomic
Plus: Interview with Peter Sellars, Illustrated synopsis & cast gallery, Mini documentaries about the opera, the cast, the composer and the director.

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 whose scientific results still do today. The question of the moral implications of the atomic bomb is raised in John Adams’ opera, just as much as that of the influence on the private lives of the main characters. Doctor Atomic is the fifth work to result from almost twenty years of collaboration between the American composer and his fellow American director and Erasmus Prize-winner Peter Sellars.

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