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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SANTA FE, N.M. — The lights of Los Alamos, the birthplace of the atomic bomb, can be seen at night from the idyllic open-air theater of Santa Fe Opera. So around here, John Adams and Peter Sellars’ ...
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 ...
In his new autobiography, Hallelujah Junction, composer John Adams calls the 1944 creation of the atom bomb at Los Alamos “the American myth par excellence.” That’s precisely the trouble with Adams’s ...
On Saturday, the high-definition broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera will be John Adams' Dr. Atomic. The performance will begin at noon at the Town Plaza Cinema. The encore broadcast will be at 7 ...
My kids and I drove up to the Irvine Spectrum in order to see *Oppenheimer* in the full 70mm IMAX format. I had previously encountered J. Robert Oppenheimer in the opera *Doctor Atomic* by John Adams.
If opera is to pull in new and young audiences, it’s works like Doctor Atomic that are likely to do it. The mix of contemporary resonance, political and moral musing and exciting new music, that doesn ...
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