John Adams: Doctor Atomic

Overview

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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Cast

Gerald Finley

J. Robert Oppenheimer

Jessica Rivera

Kitty Oppenheimer

Eric Owens

Gen. Leslie Groves

Richard Paul Fink

Edward Teller

James Maddalena

Jack Hubbard

Thomas Glenn

Robert Wilson

Jay Hunter Morris

Capt. James Nolan

Ellen Rabiner

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