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 ...

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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 ...

The eagerly anticipated third opera from John Adams, Doctor Atomic, premiered Oct. 1 at the San Francisco Opera. Based on Richard Rhodes' book The Making of the Atomic Bomb, Adams' work focuses on ...

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 ...

J. Robert Oppenheimer, the grand master of the Manhattan Project, will return to Northern New Mexico, at least in spirit, when Santa Fe Opera presents John Adams’ Doctor Atomic during its 2018 season.

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 ...