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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)

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"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"