Wonders Are Many: The Making of Doctor Atomic (2013)
1h 32m
Running Time
August 7, 2013Release Date
Wonders Are Many: The Making of Doctor Atomic (2013)
1h 32m
Running Time
August 7, 2013Release Date
Plot.
Drawing upon recently declassified documents, archival footage and behind-the-scenes interviews, "Wonders Are Many: The Making of 'Doctor Atomic'" chronicles the creation of the monumental opera based on the mysterious and paradoxical “father of the atomic bomb,” Dr. Robert Oppenheimer, as his team prepares to detonate the world’s first atomic weapon.
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Cast & Crew.
John Adams
Self - Composer
John Adams
Self - Composer
Peter Sellars
Self - Librettist
Gerald Finley
Self - Singer: Robert Oppenheimer
Thomas Glenn
Self - Singer: Robert R. Wilson (understudy
James Maddalena
Self - Singer: Jack Hubbard
Eric Owens
Self - Narrator
Tom Randle
Self - Singer: Robert R. Wilson (rehearsals)
Details.
Wiki.
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 October 1, 2005. The work focuses on the great stress and anxiety experienced by those at Los Alamos while the test of the first atomic bomb (the "Trinity" test) was being prepared. In 2007, a documentary was made about the creation of the opera, titled Wonders Are Many.