Doctor Atomic : opera in two acts / John Adams ; libretto by Peter Sellars drawn from original sources.



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Title from disc labels. Includes program notes by Mark Swed, synopsis and libretto in English (64 unnumbered pages : portraits) laid in container. Recorded. 2017 April 18-25. BBC Maida Vale Studios. Barbican Centre, London. Gerald Finley (Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer) ; Julia Bullock (Kitty Oppenheimer) ; Brindley Sherratt (Edward Teller) ; Andrew Staples (Robert Wilson) ; Jennifer Johnston (Pasqualita) ; Aubrey Allicock (General Leslie Groves) ; Marcus Farnsworth (Frank Hubbard) ; Samuel Sakker (Captain James Nolan) ; BBC Singers ; BBC Symphony Orchestra ; John Adams, conductor. Sung in English.

Title
Doctor Atomic : opera in two acts / John Adams ; libretto by Peter Sellars drawn from original sources.
Artist
Sellars, Peter, librettist.
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Abstract
In this first recording of John Adams's 2005 opera, the composer leads the BBC Singers and the BBC Symphony Orchestra, with a cast led by Gerald Finley, who originated the role of J. Robert Oppenheimer. Longtime Adams collaborator Peter Sellars created the libretto, drawing from original sources to explore the final hours leading up to the first atomic bomb explosion at the Alamagordo test site in New Mexico in July 1945.
Year
2018
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