Doctor Atomic is an opera by the contemporary American composer John Adams, with libretto by Peter Sellars. It premiered at the San Francisco Opera on...
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John Adams (composer) (section 1988 to Doctor Atomic)
Adams wrote the opera Doctor Atomic (2005), based on J. Robert Oppenheimer, the Manhattan Project, and the building of the first atomic bomb. Later operas...
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J. Robert Oppenheimer (redirect from Father of the atomic bomb)
Alamos Laboratory during World War II. He is often called the "father of the atomic bomb" for his role in overseeing the development of the first nuclear weapons...
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the Manhattan Project, a top secret research project that developed the atomic bomb during World War II. The son of a U.S. Army chaplain, Groves lived...
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On 6 and 9 August 1945, the United States detonated two atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The bombings killed between 129...
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Crystal Maze was based on a pentakis dodecahedron. In Doctor Atomic, the shape of the first atomic bomb detonated in New Mexico was a pentakis dodecahedron...
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Rogue Trooper, and reused the blue skin motif for Doctor Manhattan as it visualised electrical or atomic energy while still resembling human skin tonally...
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to the Gulf War of 1990–91. Sellars was the librettist for the opera Doctor Atomic composed by John Adams. In August 2006, he directed a staged performance...
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The Atomic Skull is a supervillain in American comic books published by DC Comics, commonly as an enemy of Superman. The character first appeared in 1978...
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Atomic Blonde is a 2017 American action thriller film directed by David Leitch (in his feature directorial debut) from a screenplay by Kurt Johnstad, based...
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Oppenheimer (film) (category Films about the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki)
Brian Dennehy as General Groves and David Strathairn as Oppenheimer Doctor Atomic, a 2005 opera about Oppenheimer, composed by John Adams Primary genres...
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February 23, 2013. Binelli, Mark (April 27, 2015). "George Clinton: Doctor Atomic". Rolling Stone. Retrieved January 31, 2019. "Two Deaths in the George...
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Harding/Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra), and Pasqualita in Adams' Doctor Atomic (Adams/BBC Symphony Orchestra, recorded for Nonesuch). She made her...
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"Doctor Atomic" (PDF). Notes. 66 (3): 628–629. doi:10.1353/not.0.0308. Retrieved 23 December 2010. Andrew Clements (27 February 2009). "Doctor Atomic (Coliseum...
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premiere productions of Nixon in China, The Death of Klinghoffer and Doctor Atomic (for which Sellars also wrote the libretto). In January 2023 two live...
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Isotope (section Even atomic number)
species (or nuclides) of the same chemical element. They have the same atomic number (number of protons in their nuclei) and position in the periodic...
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the aria setting of "Holy Sonnet XIV" at the end of the 1st act of Doctor Atomic, both by John Adams. There have been settings in popular music as well...
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and Peter Sellars create an atomic opera", The New Yorker (3 October 2005), 60–71. Peter Sellars, Libretto for "Doctor Atomic." (London: Boosey and Hawkes...
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Music Academy of the West in 2002. Cooke won best opera recording for Doctor Atomic at the 54th Annual Grammy Awards, 2011, and again for The (R)evolution...
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or on myth or legend. The Death of Klinghoffer, Nixon in China, and Doctor Atomic by John Adams, Dead Man Walking by Jake Heggie, Anna Nicole by Mark-Anthony...
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that Nixon in China be the first of such productions, but Adams chose Doctor Atomic to be the first Adams work to reach the Met. However, Gelb maintained...
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Trovatore), and the Metropolitan Opera (debut as General Leslie Groves in Doctor Atomic). He has also sung parts in several world premieres, including creating...
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Opera Faust with original lyrics by Goethe (1997) John Coolidge Adams' Doctor Atomic (2005) Pascal Dusapin's Faustus, the Last Night (2006) Classics Illustrated...
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Trinity (nuclear test) (redirect from First atomic bomb)
Smyth, Henry DeWolf (1945). Atomic Energy for Military Purposes: the Official Report on the Development of the Atomic Bomb under the Auspices of the...
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Oppenheimer marks the climax of the first half of John Adams' 2005 opera Doctor Atomic. Donne, John. "Holy Sonnets: Batter my heart, three-person'd God". The...
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Belohlávek, conductor (BBC Symphony Orchestra) Best Opera Recording "Adams: Doctor Atomic" Alan Gilbert, conductor; Meredith Arwady, Sasha Cooke, Richard Paul...
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Wu; Elizabeth Ostrow, producer (The Santa Fe Opera Orchestra) Adams: Doctor Atomic John Adams, conductor; Aubrey Allicock, Julia Bullock, Gerald Finley...
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Doctor Atomic Symphony; Guide to Strange Places". BBC Music Magazine. Retrieved 8 May 2016. Clements, Andrew (6 August 2009). "Adams: Doctor Atomic Symphony;...
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Letter of Rights). Goodman resumed writing with John Adams on the opera Doctor Atomic, but withdrew from this project after a year. She was raised as a Reform...
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composition "Water Night." John Adams set one of her texts in his opera Doctor Atomic, and Libby Larsen set the poem "Looking at Each Other" in her choral...
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