• 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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    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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  • 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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    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 150...
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    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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  • Meredith Monk, and Jessye Norman; a 2014 production of John Adams's Doctor Atomic, for which he was awarded a Götz Friedrich Prize; Péter Eötvös's Tri...
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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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  • 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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    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 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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • "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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    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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    contemporary works, including the staging of two of John Adams's operas, Doctor Atomic and Nixon in China, with a third Adams opera, The Death of Klinghoffer...
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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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    biannual medical checkups with Hiroshima and Nagasaki doctors familiar with the particular concerns of atomic bomb survivors. The U.S. government provides no...
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