Research Catalog
Doctor Atomic : opera in two acts
- Title
- Doctor Atomic : opera in two acts / John Adams ; libretto by Peter Sellars drawn from original sources.
- Author
- Adams, John, 1947-
- Publication
- New York : Nonesuch, [2018]
- ℗2018
Available Online
Details
- Additional Authors
- Description
- 1 online resource (1 sound file)
- Summary
- In this first recording of John Adams's 2005 opera, the composer leads the BBC Singers and the BBC Symphony Orchestra, with a cast led by Gerald Finley, who originated the role of J. Robert Oppenheimer. Longtime Adams collaborator Peter Sellars created the libretto, drawing from original sources to explore the final hours leading up to the first atomic bomb explosion at the Alamagordo test site in New Mexico in July 1945.
- Alternative Title
- Dr. Atomic
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Operas.
- Librettos.
- Streaming audio.
- Language (note)
- Sung in English.
- LCCN
- USNO11800001
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- USNO11800048
- OCLC
- 1081334592
- Author
- Adams, John, 1947- composer, conductor.
- Title
- Doctor Atomic : opera in two acts / John Adams ; libretto by Peter Sellars drawn from original sources.
- Publisher
- New York : Nonesuch, [2018]
- Copyright Date
- ℗2018
- Type of Content
- performed music
- Type of Medium
- computer
- Type of Carrier
- online resource
- Digital File Characteristics
- audio file
- Performer
- Gerald Finley (Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer) ; Julia Bullock (Kitty Oppenheimer) ; Brindley Sherratt (Edward Teller) ; Andrew Staples (Robert Wilson) ; Jennifer Johnston (Pasqualita) ; Aubrey Allicock (General Leslie Groves) ; Marcus Farnsworth (Frank Hubbard) ; Samuel Sakker (Captain James Nolan) ; BBC Singers ; BBC Symphony Orchestra ; John Adams, conductor.
- Event
- Recorded 2017 April 18-25 BBC Maida Vale Studios Barbican Centre, London.
- Language
- Sung in English.
- Source of description
- Hard copy version record.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Sellars, Peter, librettist.Finley, Gerald, 1960- singer.Bullock, Julia, singer.Sherratt, Brindley, singer.Staples, Andrew, singer.Johnston, Jennifer (Contralto), singer.Allicock, Aubrey, singer.Farnsworth, Marcus, singer.Sakker, Samuel, singer.BBC Singers, singer.BBC Symphony Orchestra, instrumentalist.
- Other Form:
- Source record: Adams, John, 1947- Doctor Atomic. New York : Nonesuch, [2018] 9786317361577 (OCoLC)1041859582
- Other Standard Identifier
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- Publisher No.
- 075597930238 Nonesuch
- Branch Call Number
- eNYPL Music