This is FRESH AIR. "Doctor Atomic" is an opera by John Adams and Peter Sellars about the first atom bomb test. It had its world premiere in San Francisco in 2005. A new recording conducted by the ...

SANTA FE, N.M. — The lights of Los Alamos, the birthplace of the atomic bomb, can be seen at night from the idyllic open-air theater of Santa Fe Opera. So around here, John Adams and Peter Sellars’ ...

Opera essentially equates to drama overload. J. Robert Oppenheimer certainly applies as fodder for an opera. The renowned nuclear physicist is the subject of “Doctor Atomic,” an opera scheduled to air ...

Doctor Atomic, an opera by composer John Adams, examines the conditions and attitudes in Los Alamos leading up to the Manhattan Project's "Trinity" atomic test. Much of the libretto is made up of ...