Doctor Atomic

Composer: Adams, John

Librettist/Text Author: Sellars, Peter

Conductor: Renes, Lawrence

Orchestra: Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra

Chorus: Netherlands Opera Chorus

Chorus Master: Wright, Martin

Captain James Nolan: Morris, Jay Hunter

Edward Teller: Fink, Richard Paul

General Leslie Groves: Owens, Eric

Jack Hubbard: Maddalena, James

Kitty Oppenheimer: Rivera, Jessica

Pasqualita: Rabiner, Ellen

Robert Wilson: Glenn, Thomas

Set Designer: Lobel, Adrianne

Costume Designer: Ramicova, Dunya

Lighting Designer: Ingalls, James F.

Choreographer: Childs, Lucinda

Stage Director: Sellars, Peter

Television Director: Sellars, Peter

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Date of Production: 29-06-2007

Venue: Het Muziektheater, Amsterdam

Playing Time: 03:48:00

Catalogue Number: OA0998D

UPC: 809478009986

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The longing to overcome human boundaries lead 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. Dr. 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.

Bonus features:

- Interview with Peter Sellars.

- Illustrated synopsis