Adams: Doctor Atomic
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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0809478009986
Format: Classical, Color, DTS Surround Sound, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Surround Sound, Widescreen
Label: Bbc / Opus
Manufacturer: Bbc / Opus
Number Of Discs: 2
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: Bbc / Opus
Release Date: September 30, 2008
Running Time: 230 minutes
Sales Rank: 2195
Studio: Bbc / Opus
Theatrical Release Date: 2007
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Editorial Review:
Product Description:
The longing to overcome human boundaries lead the physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer to begin 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 John Adams opera, just as much as that of the influence on the private lives of the main characters. Doctor Atomic is the fifth work to result from almost twenty years of collaboration between the American composer and his fellow American director and Erasmus Prize-winner Peter Sellars. Doctor Atomic concerns itself with the work of J. Robert Oppenheimer and his team of scientists at the test site of the first atomic bomb outside Los Alamos, New Mexico during the lead-up to the first detonation. As Zero Hour relentlessly approaches and conditions become less and less favorable, individual tensions build feverishly and Oppenheimer and his staff struggle with the moral implications of their work on 'the Gadget', and the strong possibility of global annihilation. Recorded in high definition video and true surround sound, John Adams' fascinating, overwhelming score and Peter Sellars' forceful staging (and TV direction) portray Oppenheimer, exquisitely sung by Gerald Finley, as a profoundly troubled man, at odds with himself but moving inexorably forward, representative of the great ethical dilemmas of humanity itself.
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- Finley's aria is fantastic, but it's in the wrong operaWhen a local theater subscribed to the Metropolitan Opera's HD LIVE series and broadcast DR. ATOMIC ... Read More
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- Finley alone worth watchingThis is an excellant production. If you don't like modern, dissonent opera, then this might not be for ... Read More
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- Is it History or Opera?Thanks for the history lesson, Tom, but Holy Cow! If the only acknowledgment of the music you heard today ... Read More
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- Almost perfectThe plot is based on the last days of the Manhattan project, but in fact the greatness of this opera is the ... Read More
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- Get the History Straight PleaseMy wife and I had the opportunity to see this through the Met HD Live program in November 2008. Having studied ... Read More
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