John Adams: Doctor Atomic (2007)
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.
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
