John Adams: Doctor Atomic

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‘Dr Atomic’ and ‘Oppenheimer’  Edinburgh Music Review

“Dr. Atomic,” The Oppenheimer Opera  The Library of Congress (.gov)

‘Oppenheimer’ film harks back to an operatic predecessor  San Francisco Chronicle

Can't Get Enough Oppenheimer? Try John Adams' 'Dr. Atomic Symphony,' led by Roderick Cox  WRTI

Staging Nuclear Dread in “Oppenheimer” and “Doctor Atomic”  The New Yorker

Review: ‘Doctor Atomic’ Brings the Bomb Home to New Mexico (Published 2018)  The New York Times

Doctor Atomic review – John Adams's Oppenheimer docudrama overwhelms  The Guardian

Why I walked out of Doctor Atomic.  Slate

Weekly Guide: December 7–13  Metropolitan Opera

WONDERS ARE MANY: The Making Of Doctor Atomic  AZPM

GP at the Met: Nixon in China ~ About the Opera | Great Performances  PBS

Boston Globe: John Adams's "Doctor Atomic" "Hauntingly Powerful, Deeply Humane and Eloquent"  Nonesuch Records

Faust Unleashing a Destroyer of Worlds (Published 2008)  The New York Times

The Exterminating Angel; Doctor Atomic review – incendiary Adès and Adams  The Guardian

Bringing ‘Doctor Atomic’ to the Birthplace of the Bomb (Published 2018)  The New York Times

Mixing Art and Science to Get Doomsday (Published 2008)  The New York Times

‘Doctor Atomic,’ an Opera of the Terror and Attraction of Science  The New York Times

A Boom, Finally, for John Adams Operas in Germany (Published 2019)  The New York Times

Oppenheimer: six other depictions of the ‘father of the atom bomb’ on the page, stage and screen  The Conversation

"Oppenheimer," "Doctor Atomic," and the abstraction of evil  VAN Magazine

Doctor Atomic, BBCSO, Adams, Barbican  The Arts Desk

Robert Oppenheimer: how cinema has depicted this icon of the nuclear age  Physics World

Doctor Atomic, War Memorial Opera House, San Francisco  The Guardian

Composer John Adams talks about his new work  The Guardian

Netherlands Opera: Doctor Atomic (DVD)  The Times

The Real History Behind Christopher Nolan’s ‘Oppenheimer’  Smithsonian Magazine

Tom Service: Doctor Atomic is an opera, not a history lesson  The Guardian

The Real Story Behind the Creation of the Atomic Bomb  Literary Hub