John Adams: Doctor Atomic DVD

Doctor Atomic, the John Adams opera exploring the ethical dilemmas surrounding the development of the atomic bomb, is now available on an Opus Arte DVD.

View a video clip of the DVD.

The original production by Peter Sellars was filmed at the Netherlands Opera in 2008 and features Gerald Finley in the title role of J.Robert Oppenheimer, who was the lead scientist constructing the atom bomb, tested in the New Mexico desert in summer 1945. The staging was premiered at the San Francisco Opera in 2005 and as well as travelling to the Holland Festival in Amsterdam, was staged in Chicago last December.

A new production of Doctor Atomic, directed by Penny Woolcock who filmed The Death of Klinghoffer to great acclaim, opens at the Metropolitan Opera on 13 October, travelling on to English National Opera in London in February 2009.

"Doctor Atomic is a moving and compelling work of moral, as well as musical, grandeur… one is left with a sense of the terrible magnificence of atomic fission as well as its unimaginable destructiveness.” --Daily Telegraph

"It contains music of unearthly splendour and gorgeous lushness, and its rich expressivity will take many hearings to absorb.” --Los Angeles Times

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