Doctor Atomic, opera in two acts, John Adams ; libretto by Peter Sellars drawn from original sources
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Doctor Atomic, opera in two acts, John Adams ; libretto by Peter Sellars drawn from original sources
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eng
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Doctor Atomic
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John Adams ; libretto by Peter Sellars drawn from original sources
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opera in two acts
Summary
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
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