Doctor Atomic is an opera by the contemporary American composer John Adams, with libretto by Peter Sellars. It premiered at the San Francisco Opera on October 1, 2005. The work focuses on how leading figures at Los Alamos dealt with the great stress and anxiety of preparing for the test of the first atomic bomb (the "Trinity" test).
In 2007, a documentary was made by Jon H. Else about the creation of the opera and collaboration between Adams and Sellars, titled Wonders Are Many.[1]
^"Mixing Art and Science to Get Doomsday", The New York Times, by Stephen Holden, May 30, 2008
DoctorAtomic is an opera by the contemporary American composer John Adams, with libretto by Peter Sellars. It premiered at the San Francisco Opera on...
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to the Gulf War of 1990–91. Sellars was the librettist for the opera DoctorAtomic composed by John Adams. In August 2006, he directed a staged performance...
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Music Academy of the West in 2002. Cooke won best opera recording for DoctorAtomic at the 54th Annual Grammy Awards, 2011, and again for The (R)evolution...
and Peter Sellars create an atomic opera", The New Yorker (3 October 2005), 60–71. Peter Sellars, Libretto for "DoctorAtomic." (London: Boosey and Hawkes...
the aria setting of "Holy Sonnet XIV" at the end of the 1st act of DoctorAtomic, both by John Adams. There have been settings in popular music as well...
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that Nixon in China be the first of such productions, but Adams chose DoctorAtomic to be the first Adams work to reach the Met. However, Gelb maintained...
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