

And John Adams explore inside of his mind, in terms of stress, anxiety, and guilt. He was one of the key member in the Trinity Test. Robert Oppenheimer is the leading character in this opera. It takes the music from the overture, various interludes and orchestral settings. This opera is the first opera of John Adams, which received the Metropolitan Opera Debut in 2011Īdams also adapted the opera into orchestral symphonic work called Doctor Atomic Symphony in 2007.

This opera focuses on the incredibly huge stress and nervousness experienced by core players in the Manhattan Project, especially especially Robert Oppenheimer, General Leslie Groves, and also features Kitty Oppenheimer, Robert's wife.ĭoctor Atomic has in common in style with his other two operas, which is called Trilogy, Nixon in China and Death of Klinghoffer, since both of them also explored the historical events with actual people-model characters who shows there personalities. Doctor Atomic is an opera in two acts by John Adams with Peter Sellars's libretto.
