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...
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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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On 6 and 9 August 1945, the United States detonated two atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, respectively. The bombings killed...
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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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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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Atomic Blonde is a 2017 American action thriller film directed by David Leitch (receiving his first credit as feature film director) from a screenplay...
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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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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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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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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 Although in...
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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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Klinghoffer I Was Looking at the Ceiling and Then I Saw the Sky El Niño Doctor Atomic A Flowering Tree The Gospel According to the Other Mary Girls of the...
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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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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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Klinghoffer I Was Looking at the Ceiling and Then I Saw the Sky El Niño Doctor Atomic A Flowering Tree The Gospel According to the Other Mary Girls of the...
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Klinghoffer I Was Looking at the Ceiling and Then I Saw the Sky El Niño Doctor Atomic A Flowering Tree The Gospel According to the Other Mary Girls of the...
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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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"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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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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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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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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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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Purcell, 1689 Dienstag aus Licht, Stockhausen, 1993 Djamileh, Bizet, 1872 Doctor Atomic, John Adams, 2005 Dolores Claiborne, Picker, 2013 Don Carlos, Verdi...
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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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in Amsterdam. In 2018, she starred as Kitty Oppenheimer in Adams's Doctor Atomic for Santa Fe Opera. In 2019 she premiered Zauberland, about which was...
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organized theft of atomic equipment. After he stole a formula that Spider-Man needed to cure his Aunt May, Spider-Man tracked Doctor Octopus' gang to their...
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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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