![]() ![]() The opera’s action unfolds during the run-up to the first A-bomb test in 1945 - when Oppenheimer was still hearing from associates about their misgivings and was grappling with his own - and then in the tense hours before the test when an electrical rain storm threatened to throw a monkey wrench into the grim proceedings. The opera, which features a libretto by Peter Sellars derived in part from Oppenheimer’s and his colleagues’ writings and recorded comments, turns out to be more than intermittently arresting under Alan Gilbert’s grand conducting, even if it fails to reach its intended heights. Robert Oppenheimer (Gerald Finley in muscular and almost consistently anguished mode and wielding an ever-present cigarette), the central figure behind building the first atomic bomb. If you believe outsized events are the ones that lend themselves most auspiciously to magnum-opus treatments, then it takes little imagination to understand why composer John Adams jumped at the chance to createĭoctor Atomic, now making its belated New York debut at the Metropolitan Opera.įirst commissioned by the San Francisco Opera, this probing work is about J. ![]()
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