Adams: Doctor Atomic (2008)

Lawrence Renes, Conductor
Peter Sellars, Director

The longing to overcome human boundaries led the physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer to begin an experiment that formed a threat to the whole of humanity, and whose scientific results still do today. The question of the moral implications of the atomic bomb is raised in John Adams’ opera, just as much as that of the influence on the private lives of the main characters. Doctor Atomic is the fifth work to result from almost twenty years of collaboration between the American composer and his fellow American director and Erasmus Prize-winner Peter Sellars.

December 2008
Opus Arte

 

PICTURE FORMAT: 16:9
LENGTH: 288 Mins
SOUND: DTS SURROUND 5.1 / 2.0 DOLBY DIGITAL
SUBTITLES: EN/FR/DE/ES/NE

Cast

Gerald Finley – J. Robert Oppenheimer)
Jessica Rivera – Kitty Oppenheimer
Eric Owens – General Leslie Groves
Richard Paul Fink – Edward Teller
James Maddalena – Jack Hubbard
Thomas Glenn – Robert Wilson
Jay Hunter Morris – Captain James Nolan
Ellen Rabiner – Pasqualita

Performed with Chorus of De Nederlandse Opera; Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra

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