An operatic work begins with the composer, who writes the music, and the librettist, who writes the words. The Encyclopedia Britannica defines opera as “a staged drama set to music in its entirety, made up of vocal pieces with instrumental accompaniment and usually with orchestral overtures and interludes.” Opera is a complex and collaborative art form. Wilson, and Kitty Oppenheimer, are also represented. Other historical figures involved in the Manhattan Project, including General Leslie Groves, Edward Teller, Robert R. Robert Oppenheimer, director of the Los Alamos Laboratory, is the central character of the opera.
The opera, which premiered in 2005, takes place in the weeks leading up to the Trinity Test, the first-ever detonation of a nuclear weapon.
Doctor Atomic is an opera composed by John Adams with a libretto by Peter Sellars.
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