![]() ![]() Calling the work a "three-hour symphony of dread," Alex Ross, who spent time over a several week period with the creators and cast of Doctor Atomic, said in his 9000-word essay published in The New Yorker magazine dated October 3, 2005: Prominent critics have written passionately about the music Adams has created for Doctor Atomic. Doctor Atomic demonstrates that we as a nation are not prepared (and may never be prepared) for such acts of devastation. This force is a collision that breaks open the supreme horror of World War II, the explosion of the atomic bomb into the light of today¹s disasters: hurricane Katrina, the war in Iraq, and the 9/11 terrorists attacks. ![]() However, it is the energy of Adams' music that transforms Sellars' found libretto of extant letters, government documents, memoirs by scientists working on the Manhattan Project, celebrated poetry, and American Indian song into a monumental force. ![]() Scene4 | Doctor Atomic Is Alive! | Karren Alenier | November 2005īy sheer mass alone - an orchestra of 70 musicians, a cast of 13 principal and 45 choral singers, a dance company of 8 - John Adams, Peter Sellars, and the San Francisco Opera on October 1, 2005, have produced Doctor Atomic, a grand opera of significant impact to an opening night standing-room-only audience. ![]()
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