Doctor Atomic
Music by John Adams (composer) · libretto by Peter Sellars · premiered 2005 · at San Francisco Opera
Doctor Atomic is an opera by the contemporary American composer John Adams, with a libretto by Peter Sellars. It premiered at the San Francisco Opera on October 1, 2005. The work focuses on how leading figures at Los Alamos dealt with the great stress and anxiety of preparing for the test of the first atomic bomb, the "Trinity" test. In 2007, a documentary was made by Jon H. Else about the creation of the opera and collaboration between Adams and Sellars, titled Wonders Are Many.
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About the Composer
John Adams (composer) is the composer of record for this opera.
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Other Operas by John Adams (composer)
- A Flowering Tree
- I Was Looking at the Ceiling and Then I Saw the Sky (1995)
- El Niño (2000)
- Girls of the Golden West (2017)
- Antony and Cleopatra (2022)