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 reviews from Monday's opening of "Dr. Atomic" at the Met are starting to come in. John Adams' 2005 opera is about the tense hours leading up to the explosion of the first atom bomb. John Rockwell ...

As the sun sinks low, bathing the sky over the Jemez Mountains with a blood-red glow, Robert Oppenheimer and his minions take the stage of the Santa Fe Opera, in the lengthening shadow of Los Alamos.

This is FRESH AIR. "Doctor Atomic" is an opera by John Adams and Peter Sellars about the first atom bomb test. It had its world premiere in San Francisco in 2005. A new recording conducted by the ...

Opera essentially equates to drama overload. J. Robert Oppenheimer certainly applies as fodder for an opera. The renowned nuclear physicist is the subject of “Doctor Atomic,” an opera scheduled to air ...

Doctor Atomic, an opera by composer John Adams, examines the conditions and attitudes in Los Alamos leading up to the Manhattan Project's "Trinity" atomic test. Much of the libretto is made up of ...

Upon witnessing the world’s first detonation of a nuclear weapon on July 16, 1945, physicist Robert Oppenheimer uttered a piece of Hindu scripture from the Bhagavad-Gita: “Now I am become Death, the ...