This specific trajectory from theory to reality serves as the case study for Doctor Atomic, which Adams made with director Peter Sellars (their fifth collaboration). But by then, Wonders Are Many narrator Eric Owens intones, “The secret of the bomb was no longer secret.” And the nuclear arms race, the outcome that theoretical physicist Oppenheimer most desperately dreaded, was underway. In the case of “Oppie,” these costs are well known, as he went on, following the completion of the Trinity Test at Los Alamos, to fight to control the spread of nuclear weapons. The film, directed by John Else, ingeniously considers the parallels between the opera’s conception and development and that of the bomb, exploring the creative process as such, in particular its many costs. These challenges form the core of the excellent documentary Wonders Are Many: The Making of Doctor Atomic. Robert Oppenheimer, the inspired, famously tormented director of the Manhattan Project. “And Oppenheimer is, of course, every dramatist’s dream because he’s so complex, almost theatrically so.” In making Doctor Atomic, an opera about the making of the atomic bomb, Adams took on a series of challenges, not least being the portrayal of J. “What drew me were the people,” says John Adams. Your force, to break, blow, burn, and make me new. That I may rise, and stand, o’erthrow me, and bend I have a certain amount of respect for that atomic bomb.īatter my heart, three-personed God for, youĪs yet but knock, breathe, shine, and seek to mend
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