The European premiere of the opera by the contemporary American composer John Adams, with libretto by Peter Sellars, in a co-production of the San Francisco Opera (where the work premiered), the Lyric Opera of Chicago, and De Nederlandse Opera. The plot focuses on the great stress and anxiety experienced by those at Los Alamos while the test of the first atomic bomb (the "Trinity" test) was being prepared.
Peter Sellars
Director, Writer
Gerald Finley
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Jessica Rivera
Kitty Oppenheimer
Eric Owens
Gen. Leslie Groves
Richard Paul Fink
Edward Teller
James Maddalena
Jack Hubbard
Thomas Glenn
Robert Wilson
Jay Hunter Morris
Capt. James Nolan
Ellen Rabiner
Pasqualita
Grace Unplugged60%
Hounddog64%
Battle of the Year67%
O'Dessa58%
Clika80%
Jersey Boys67%
Mo' Better Blues64%
Too Late Blues63%
Coda59%
Honeydripper58%
Wild Style61%
Teen Spirit60%
Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere67%
A Time for Dancing66%
Cadillac Records71%
Good Vibrations67%
Fedora67%
The Unforgivable74%
A Late Quartet67%
Salomé62%
