× BECOME A FRIEND GO PREMIUM ENJOYING THIS EXCERPT? Subscribe to medici.tv Premium to watch the full version! Subscribe Program John Adams, Doctor Atomic I, 1: "We believed that "Matter can be neither created nor destroyed"" I, 2: "Am I in your light?" I, 3: "What the hell is wrong with the weather?" OPERA Adams' Doctor Atomic Lawrence Renes, Peter Sellars – Gerald Finley (J. Robert Oppenheimer), Thomas Glenn (Robert Wilson), Jessica Rivera (Kitty Oppenheimer) – De Nederlandse Opera ABOUT John Adams and Peter Sellars' opera about Robert Oppenheimer, at the Nederlandse Opera in Amsterdam. Which better subject John Adams and Peter Sellars could have chosen to denonciate the fall of the modern world? The atomic bomb and its inventor, Robert Oppenheimer (Gerald Finley), are in the middle of the action of this opera, which premiered in 2005 at the San Francisco Opera. After him, the world will never be the way it used to be, and is inexorably shifting towards the nuclear era. And yet, this opera focuses on common and universal problems, including love stories and broken hearts. The title of this opera reminds us of the famous movie by Stanley Kubrick (Dr. Strangelove: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb), and features fantastic artists such as Gerald Finley who created the role in 2005: it is without any doubt a masterpiece which "modernizes" the issues on the lyric planet. © Picture: Marco Borggreve CAST Peter Sellars | Stage director Adrianne Lobel | Set designer Dunya Ramicova | Costumes James F. Ingalls | Lighting 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 Koor Van De Nederlandese Opera Martin Wright | Chorus master Nederlands Philharmonisch Orkest Lawrence Renes | Music director PROGRAM John Adams, Doctor Atomic I, 1: "We believed that "Matter can be neither created nor destroyed"" I, 2: "Am I in your light?" I, 3: "What the hell is wrong with the weather?" II, 1: "Wary of time O it seizes the soul tonight" II, 2: "In the north the cloud-flower blossoms" II, 3: "The program has been plagued from the start" DETAILS Directed by: Peter Sellars Venue: De Nationale Opera (Amsterdam, Netherlands) Production date: 2007 Duration: 2 h 51 min Production: © De Nederlandse Opera / NPS Available version(s): EN Available subtitle(s) : EN, FR, ES, DE APPEARS IN Musics from the Americas The World's Greatest Concert Halls Music, History, and Politics The Faust legend in music American Composers Contemporary operas War and peace in music Operalia, what have they become? YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE PREMIUM 02:52:18 OPERA GLYNDEBOURNE 2010 Mozart's Don Giovanni Jonathan Kent (stage director), Vladimir Jurowski (conductor) – With Gerald Finley (Don Giovanni), Luca Pisaroni (Leporello), Kate Royal (Donna Elvira)... PREMIUM 04:18:28 OPERA 2008 Messiaen's Saint François d'Assise Ingo Metzmacher, Pierre Audi – Rod Gilfry (Saint François), Camilla Tilling (The Angel) – De Nederlandse Opera De Nationale Opera (Amsterdam, Netherlands) PREMIUM 01:48:11 OPERA FESTIVAL D'AIX-EN-PROVENCE 2008 Mozart's Zaide Louis Langrée, Peter Sellars – Russell Thomas (Sultan Soliman), Morris Robinson (Osmin), Ekaterina Lekhina (Zaide) – Aix-en-Provence Festival THE BEST OF CLASSICAL MUSIC Concerts Operas Ballets Documentaries Master classes Event calendar GET TO KNOW US Who we are medici.tv Premium medici.tv EDU Our Partners Join our team USEFUL LINKS Give a gift card Redeem a gift card Support Terms & conditions Contact us OTHER LANGUAGES | Want to dive deeper? Check out our blog FOLLOW US SIGN UP FOR OUR NEWSLETTER The best of medici.tv, right in your inbox © MUSEEC SAS – 2017 with the support of Creative Europe - MEDIA Programme of the European Union