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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' Doctor Atomic Peter Sellars (stage director), Lawrence Renes (music director) – With Gerald Finley (J. Robert Oppenheimer), Thomas Glenn (Robert Wilson), Jessica Rivera (Kitty Oppenheimer) – De Nederlandse Opera

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

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

About

John Adams and Peter Sellars' opera about Robert Oppenheimer, at the Nederlandse Opera in Amsterdam.

Which better subject John Adams and Peter Sellars could have chosen to denonciate the fall of the modern world? The atomic bomb and its inventor, Robert Oppenheimer (Gerald Finley), are in the middle of the action of this opera, which premiered in 2005 at the San Francisco Opera. After him, the world will never be the way it used to be, and is inexorably shifting towards the nuclear era. And yet, this opera focuses on common and universal problems, including love stories and broken hearts.

The title of this opera reminds us of the famous movie by Stanley Kubrick (Dr. Strangelove: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb), and features fantastic artists such as Gerald Finley who created the role in 2005: it is without any doubt a masterpiece which "modernizes" the issues on the lyric planet.

© Picture: Marco Borggreve

Cast

  • 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"

Details

  • Directed by:
  • Venue: De Nationale Opera (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
  • Production date: 2007
  • Duration: 2 h 51 min
  • Production: © De Nederlandse Opera / NPS
  • Available version(s): EN
  • Available subtitle(s) : EN, FR, ES, DE
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