Here is my favorite part of De Nederlandse's 2007 production of Peter Sellars' and John Adams' opera, "Dr. Atomic."
As a New Mexico native, I am particularly pleased at the attention to local detail despite the formal minimalism. For example, the horizon skyline as seen on the backdrop represents the Sangre de Cristo Mountains of New Mexico as seen from Los Alamos.
Gerald Finley as J. Robert Oppenheimer, Jessica Rivera as Kitty Oppenheimer, and Ellen Rabiner as Pasqualita.
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