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Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Adams: Doctor Atomic - The Countdown



I've posted this before, but I like it so much it's time to post it again! As long as we have these terrible things with us, it's pertinent.

I particularly admire the care these folks took to get the New Mexico setting just right. After all, far removed in their European redoubt, they didn't have to make that effort - they didn't have to care - and it wouldn't have affected the show much. These folks cared about everything they did, however, and it shows.
John Adams
Doctor Atomic (2005)

De Nederlandse Opera
Muziektheater, Amsterdam, June 2007

Nederlands Philharmonisch Orkest
Koor van De Nederlandse Opera
Lawrence Renes, conductor
Peter Sellars, director

This is a thrilling orchestral/ensemble set piece from Act II of John Adams' Doctor Atomic - here the countdown to detonation has begun.

Cast featured:

Gerald Finley as J. Robert Oppenheimer
Jessica Rivera as Kitty Oppenheimer
Eric Owens as Gen. Leslie Groves
Thomas Glenn as Robert Wilson
Ellen Rabiner as Pasqualita (Maid)

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