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John Adams, Doctor Atomic
- I, 1: "We believed that "Matter can be neither created nor destroyed""
- I, 2: "Am I in your light?"
- I, 3: "What the hell is wrong with the weather?"
- II, 1: "Wary of time O it seizes the soul tonight"
- II, 2: "In the north the cloud-flower blossoms"
- II, 3: "The program has been plagued from the start"

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opera Adams's Doctor Atomic Peter Sellars (stage director), Lawrence Renes (music director) — With Gerald Finley (J. Robert Oppenheimer), Thomas Glenn (Robert Wilson), Jessica Rivera (Kitty Oppenheimer)

Peter Sellars (stage director), Lawrence Renes (music director) — With Gerald Finley (J. Robert Oppenheimer), Thomas Glenn (Robert Wilson), Jessica Rivera (Kitty Oppenheimer)

Adams's Doctor Atomic Peter Sellars (stage director), Lawrence Renes (music director) — With Gerald Finley (J. Robert Oppenheimer), Thomas Glenn (Robert Wilson), Jessica Rivera (Kitty Oppenheimer)

About

"I am become death, the destroyer of worlds..." John Adams and Peter Sellars's opera about Robert Oppenheimer, the father of the atomic bomb, stuns at the Nederlandse Opera in Amsterdam.

Peter Sellars | Stage director
Adrianne Lobel | Set designer
Dunya Ramicova | Costumes
James F. Ingalls | Lighting

Gerald Finley | J. Robert Oppenheimer
Jessica Rivera | Kitty Oppenheimer
Eric Owens | General Leslie Groves
Richard Paul Fink | Edward Teller
James Maddalena | Jack Hubbard
Thomas Glenn | Robert Wilson
Jay Hunter Morris | Captain James Nolan
Ellen Rabiner | Pasqualita

Koor Van De Nederlandese Opera
Martin Wright | Chorus master

Nederlands Philharmonisch Orkest
Lawrence Renes | Music director

Program

John Adams, Doctor Atomic
- I, 1: "We believed that "Matter can be neither created nor destroyed""
- I, 2: "Am I in your light?"
- I, 3: "What the hell is wrong with the weather?"
- II, 1: "Wary of time O it seizes the soul tonight"
- II, 2: "In the north the cloud-flower blossoms"
- II, 3: "The program has been plagued from the start"