Adams, John: Doctor Atomic

John Adams: Doctor Atomic - COMPACT DISCS

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Title:

Doctor Atomic

Artist:

John Adams

Label:

Nonesuch

Product Type:

COMPACT DISCS

UPC:

075597931075

Genre:

Classical

Release Date:

2018-06-29

Number of Discs:

2

On this first recording of John Adams's 2005 opera, Doctor Atomic, the composer leads the BBC Singers and the BBC Symphony Orchestra, with a cast led by Gerald Finley, who originated the role of J. Robert Oppenheimer. Longtime Adams collaborator Peter Sellars created the libretto, drawing from original sources to explore the final hours leading up to the first atomic bomb explosion at the Alamagordo test site in New Mexico in July 1945. "A magnificent accomplishment that easily takes it's place alongside the other Adams-Sellars triumphs," exclaims the Los Angeles Times. "It contains music of unearthly splendor."

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