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Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

Doctor Atomic : opera in two acts / composer, John Adams ; libretto, Peter Sellars from original sources ; stage director, Peter Sellars ; a co-production of De Nederlandse Opera and the NPS.

Publisher, Date:

Waldron, Heathfield, East Sussex, U.K. : Opus Arte, [2008]

Description:

2 videodiscs (approximately 230 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.

plastic

4 3/4 in.

digital

video file

DVD video

all regions

Summary:

J. Robert Oppenheimer began an experiment that formed a threat to the whole of humanity, and whose scientific results still do today. The question of the moral implications of the atomic bomb is raised in Adams opera.

Target Audience Note:

Warning: contains graphic wartime images.

Subjects:

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

Sellars, Peter -- Interviews.

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

Operas.

Atomic bomb -- Drama.

Genre:

Opera television programs.

Nonfiction television programs.

Feature films.

Other Author:

Sellars, Peter, librettist, director, interviewee.

Finley, Gerald, 1960- singer.

Rivera, Jessica (Soprano), singer.

Owens, Eric, 1970- singer.

Fink, Richard Paul, singer.

Maddalena, James, singer.

Glenn, Thomas, singer.

Morris, Jay Hunter, singer.

Rabiner, Ellen, singer.

Renes, Lawrence, conductor.

Lobel, Adrianne.

Ramicova, Dunya.

Childs, Lucinda, choreographer.

Grey, Mark, 1967-

Adams, John, 1947- Doctor Atomic.

Nederlands Philharmonisch Orkest.

Nederlands Operakoor.

Nederlandse Opera.

Nederlandse Programma Stichting.

Opus Arte (Firm)

Notes:

Program notes by Thomas May in English, French and German (25 pages : illustrations) inserted in container.

Extra features: illustrated synopsis; cast gallery; mini documentaries about the opera, the cast, the composer and the director; interview with Peter Sellars, librettist & stage director.

Sets, Adrianne Lobel ; costumes, Dunya Ramicova ; lighting, James F. Ingalls ; choreography, Lucinda Childs ; sound, Mark Grey.

Gerald Finley (J. Robert Oppenheimer) ; Jessica Rivera (Kitty Oppenheimer) ; Eric Owens (General Leslie Groves) ; Richard Paul Fink (Edward Teller) ; James Maddalena (Jack Hubbard) ; Thomas Glenn (Robert Wilson) ; Jay Hunter Morris (Captain James Nolan) ; Ellen Rabiner (Pasqualita) ; Nederlands Philharmonisch Orkest ; Koor van De Nederlands Opera ; Lawrence Renes, conductor.

Recorded live at Het Muziektheater, Amsterdam, June 7, 25 and 29, 2007.

DVD, aspect ratio: 16/9 anamorphic; double layer disc; all regions; LPCM stereo., digital DTS surround.

Sung in English; optional subtitles in Dutch, English, French, German, Italian or Spanish.

Contents:

Disc 1. Act 1 ; Synopsis ; Cast gallery -- Disc 2. Act 2 ; Documentaries ; Interview.

Publisher Number:

OA 0998 D

Other Number:

260605591

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

1

Control Number:

226516

# Local items in:

1

# System items in:

1

Call Number:

DVD 782.1 Doctor A