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John Adams, Doctor Atomic
- Act I
- 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?"
- I, 4: "Batter my heart"
- Act II
- 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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A 2014 French production of John Adams and Peter Sellars' opera Doctor Atomic at the Opéra national du Rhin.

Doctor Atomic is John Adam's portrait of the inventor of the atomic bomb, J. Robert Oppenheimer, interpreted by Dietrich Henschel in this production. Thanks to Oppenheimer, the world entered a new age: the nuclear era. Terrified by her husband's project, Kitty Oppenheimer (Anna Grevelius) is left alone and reflects on the contradictions of peace, war, and love. An opera treating both contemporary and timeless issues, Doctor Atomic warns of the fall of the modern world, with love stories and broken hearts woven in. Peter Sellars libretto borrows texts from poets like Charles Baudelaire, John Donne, and Muriel Rukeyser.

It was premiered at the San Francisco Opera in 2005. This French production by the Opéra national du Rhin opened its 2013-2014 season and included the participation of the Chœurs de l'OnR, Chœurs de l'OSM, the Orchestre Symphonique de Mulhouse and many talented singers.

Picture: © A. Kaiser.

French premiere – New production.

Cast

Lucinda Childs | Stage director
Bruno de Lavenère | Set designer, Costume designer
David Debrinay | Lighting

Dietrich Henschel | J. Robert Oppenheimer
Robert Bork | Edward Teller
Marlin Miller | Robert Wilson
Anna Grevelius | Kitty Oppenheimer
Jovita Vaskeviciute | Pasqualita
Peter Sidhom | General Leslie Groves
Brian Bannatyne-Scott | Jack Hubbard
John Graham-Hall | Captain James Nolan

Chœurs de l'Opéra national du Rhin
Sandrine Abello | Chorus director
Orchestre Symphonique de Mulhouse
Patrick Davin | Conductor

Program

John Adams, Doctor Atomic
- Act I
- 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?"
- I, 4: "Batter my heart"
- Act II
- 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:
- Stéphane Vérité
Venue: Opéra national du Rhin (Strasbourg, France)
Production date: 2014
Duration: 2 h 48 min
Production: © Opéra National du Rhin – Oxymore
Available version(s): EN

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