This is FRESH AIR. "Doctor Atomic" is an opera by John Adams and Peter Sellars about the first atom bomb test. It had its world premiere in San Francisco in 2005. A new recording conducted by the ...
The tough reception for Klinghoffer was hard on Adams; he said at the time that he would never write another opera. But artists have always made–and ignored–such pronouncements, and so Adams’s latest ...
Opera essentially equates to drama overload. J. Robert Oppenheimer certainly applies as fodder for an opera. The renowned nuclear physicist is the subject of “Doctor Atomic,” an opera scheduled to air ...
The Met continues its commitment to contemporary opera with this new production of John Adams' "Doctor Atomic," which world preemed three years ago in San Francisco. The Met continues its commitment ...