SAN FRANCISCO -- There is much to admire in "Doctor Atomic," a new opera by John Adams that received its world premiere here Saturday night in a production by the San Francisco Opera. The subject is a ...

Doctor Atomic seems like an attempt to make a point rather than a successful opera. For all the controversy it engendered, The Death of Klinghoffer was remarkably even-handed. Of course, that balance ...

The late Daniel Ellsberg, in his book “The Doomsday Machine,” drew attention to a curious conversation that took place between Albert Speer and Adolf Hitler in the summer of 1942, on the subject of ...

See a trailer from the Metropolitan Opera production, "Doctor Atomic." Composed by John Adams, directed by Penny Woolcock, this contemporary opera delves into the creation of the atomic bomb. (Oct. 16 ...

In his new autobiography, Hallelujah Junction, composer John Adams calls the 1944 creation of the atom bomb at Los Alamos “the American myth par excellence.” That’s precisely the trouble with Adams’s ...

On Saturday, the high-definition broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera will be John Adams' Dr. Atomic. The performance will begin at noon at the Town Plaza Cinema. The encore broadcast will be at 7 ...

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’ ...

Metropolitan Opera Live in HD presents "Doctor Atomic" by John Adams 1 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 8, at the Saginaw 8 movie complex $18 Opera can depict the end of the world: We've known that since Wagner's ...

Drawing upon recently declassified documents, archival footage and behind-the-scenes interviews, "Wonders Are Many: The Making of 'Doctor Atomic'" chronicles the creation of the monumental opera based ...

My kids and I drove up to the Irvine Spectrum in order to see *Oppenheimer* in the full 70mm IMAX format. I had previously encountered J. Robert Oppenheimer in the opera *Doctor Atomic* by John Adams.