Doctor Atomic

Doctor Atomic / John Adams.

John Adams's mesmerizing score, in the powerful production of Penny Woolcock, tells the story of one of the pivotal moments in human history--the creation of the atomic bomb. Conducted by Alan Gilbert in his Met debut, this gripping opera presents the human face of the scientists, military men,...

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Main Author: Adams, John, 1947- (Composer)
Corporate Author: Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.) (Performer)
Other Authors: Finley, Gerald, 1960- (Performer), Cooke, Sasha (Performer), Fink, Richard Paul (Performer), Glenn, Thomas (Performer), Gilbert, Alan, 1967- (Conductor), Woolcock, Penny (Director)
Format: Video
Language:English
French
German
Spanish
Published: [New York, New York] : [Metropolitan Opera], [2008]
Subjects:
Operas.
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Table of Contents:
  • Opening credits
  • Introduction by Susan Graham
  • Overture
  • The end of June, nineteen forty-five
  • First of all, let me say
  • We are bedevilled by faulty detonators
  • I saw the announcement
  • Everybody is rushing around
  • Our only hope
  • Am I in your light?
  • Long let me inhale
  • Your hair contains an entire dream
  • Ah-- Long let me bite your heavy black tresses
  • Orchestral interlude
  • What the hell is wrong with the weather?
  • Five hundred U.S. Super fortresses
  • With respect, sir-- Anyone with two good eyes
  • Feelings of heat and cold
  • Orchestral interlude
  • General, you are bearing up with remarkable fortitude
  • Batter my heart three person'd God
  • Introduction to Act II by Susan Graham
  • Wary of time-- O it seizes the soul tonight
  • Shining, shining-- all things shine
  • Interlude: Rain over the Sangre de Cristos
  • In the north the cloud flower blossoms
  • It's midnight, Jack
  • I've dreamed the same dream
  • To the farthest west-- the sea and the striped country
  • A delay in the Potsdam ultimatum
  • I've spent a great deal of time indulging in controlled fantasies
  • My revised figures agree with Bethe's
  • The winds have actually shifted
  • Countdown
  • I just finished reading The magic mountain
  • And love, and love which contains all human spirit
  • At the sight of this
  • Lieutenant Bush, Keep a weather eye on Oppenheimer
  • Orchestral interlude
  • The sky is clear to the east
  • Zero minus two minutes
  • Bows and closing credits.

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