Released:
2007-06-01

Overview:
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.

Director:
Peter Sellars

Runtime:
3h 51min

Genre:
Drama, Music

• Cast:
• 
  Gerald Finley
  as
  J. Robert Oppenheimer
• 
  Jessica Rivera
  as
  Kitty Oppenheimer
• 
  Eric Owens
  as
  Gen. Leslie Groves
• 
  Richard Paul Fink
  as
  Edward Teller
• 
  James Maddalena
  as
  Jack Hubbard