Catalog - The City Library

Format:

Music CD, Musical Sound Recording, Sound Recording

Author:

Adams, John, 1947- composer, conductor.

Title:

Doctor Atomic : opera in two acts / John Adams ; libretto by Peter Sellars drawn from original sources.

Publisher, Date:

New York : Nonesuch, [2018]

℗2018

Description:

2 audio discs ; 4 3/4 in.

digital optical

audio file

CD audio

Summary:

In this first recording of John Adams's 2005 opera, 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.

Subjects:

Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 1904-1967 -- Drama.

Manhattan Project (U.S.) -- Drama.

Operas.

Operas -- Librettos.

Genre:

Operas.

Librettos.

Other Author:

Sellars, Peter, librettist.

Finley, Gerald, 1960- singer.

Bullock, Julia, singer.

Sherratt, Brindley, singer.

Staples, Andrew, singer.

Johnston, Jennifer (Contralto), singer.

Allicock, Aubrey, singer.

Farnsworth, Marcus, singer.

Sakker, Samuel, singer.

BBC Singers, singer.

BBC Symphony Orchestra, instrumentalist.

Other Title:

Dr. Atomic

Notes:

Title from disc labels.

Includes program notes by Mark Swed, synopsis and libretto in English (64 unnumbered pages : portraits) laid in container.

Gerald Finley (Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer) ; Julia Bullock (Kitty Oppenheimer) ; Brindley Sherratt (Edward Teller) ; Andrew Staples (Robert Wilson) ; Jennifer Johnston (Pasqualita) ; Aubrey Allicock (General Leslie Groves) ; Marcus Farnsworth (Frank Hubbard) ; Samuel Sakker (Captain James Nolan) ; BBC Singers ; BBC Symphony Orchestra ; John Adams, conductor.

Recorded 2017 April 18-25 BBC Maida Vale Studios Barbican Centre, London.

Sung in English.

ISBN:

9786317361577

6317361576

9786317361577 : CD

6317361576 : CD

Publisher Number:

7559-79310-7

Other Number:

1041859582

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

1

Control Number:

773321

# Local items in:

1

# System items in:

1

Call Number:

CD B ADAM-J DA B10