SAN FRANCISCO -- There is much to admire in "Doctor Atomic," a new opera by John Adams that received its world premiere here Saturday night in a production by the San Francisco Opera. The subject is a ...

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Doctor Atomic seems like an attempt to make a point rather than a successful opera. For all the controversy it engendered, The Death of Klinghoffer was remarkably even-handed. Of course, that balance ...

On Saturday, the high-definition broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera will be John Adams' Dr. Atomic. The performance will begin at noon at the Town Plaza Cinema. The encore broadcast will be at 7 ...

The late Daniel Ellsberg, in his book “The Doomsday Machine,” drew attention to a curious conversation that took place between Albert Speer and Adolf Hitler in the summer of 1942, on the subject of ...

SANTA FE, N.M. — “We must first devise a demonstration,” a nuclear scientist sings in the opera “Doctor Atomic.” “Where there won’t be any people. Not on a city. Or a demonstration right here in the ...

In his new autobiography, Hallelujah Junction, composer John Adams calls the 1944 creation of the atom bomb at Los Alamos “the American myth par excellence.” That’s precisely the trouble with Adams’s ...

See a trailer from the Metropolitan Opera production, "Doctor Atomic." Composed by John Adams, directed by Penny Woolcock, this contemporary opera delves into the creation of the atomic bomb. (Oct. 16 ...

Among the vocal selections in the San Francisco Opera’s centennial concert in June was the aria “Batter My Heart” from “Doctor Atomic,” John Adams’ 2005 opera about J. Robert Oppenheimer and the ...

Drawing upon recently declassified documents, archival footage and behind-the-scenes interviews, "Wonders Are Many: The Making of 'Doctor Atomic'" chronicles the creation of the monumental opera based ...

The opera, which has done the intercontinental rounds since 2005, is set on the eve of the first nuclear test in 1945, in a world on the tipping-point of no-return. J Robert Oppenheimer, the scientist ...