“Doctor Atomic” from the Met showing live today at movie theaters
This photo provided by the Metropolitan Opera shows Gerald Finley as J. Robert Oppenheimer during the final dress rehearsal of ” Doctor Atomic” at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York. (Associated Press Photo/Metropolitan Opera, Ken Howard)
The Metropolitan Opera’s third season of the Emmy Award-winning series ”The Met: Live in HD,” in partnership with NCM Fathom, continues today with the acclaimed John
Adams opera “Doctor Atomic Live.”
The live version of the performance will be shown at noon today at 440 movie theaters across the U.S., including the following Oklahoma locations: Oklahoma at Quail Springs 24, 2501 W Memorial Road; Tinseltown USA, 6001 N Martin Luther King Ave.; and Spotlight 14, 1100 N Interstate Drive, Norman; and Cinemark Tulsa 17 with IMAX,
10802 E 71 Street S, Tulsa.
It’s the first time, the Metropolitan Opera presents a work by Pulitzer Adams.”Doctor Atomic” is his opera about J. Robert Oppenheimer and the creation of the atomic bomb.
The opera is set in New Mexico in the summer of 1945, as scientists, led by Oppenheimer, and the military prepare to test the first nuclear bomb, events that will radically change the course and fabric of history. Gerald Finley plays the lead role and is joined by Sasha Cooke as Kitty Oppenheimer, Richard Paul Fink as the physicist Edward Teller, and in their Met debuts Eric Owens as General Leslie Groves, and Meredith Arwady, who plays Pasqualita, the Oppenheimer’s Tewa maid.
Penny Woolcock, an award-winning British TV and film director who worked with Adams on the 2003 film of his opera “The Death of Klinghoffer,” is making both her Met and her opera-directing debut with this new production. “Doctor Atomic” will be conducted by Alan Gilbert, the New York Philharmonic’s music director designate, also in his Met debut. The libretto for “Doctor Atomic” is by Peter Sellars, who adapted the text from original sources, including declassified government files and conversations with people who worked on the Manhattan Project.
Prior to the performance of the one-act opera and at the conclusion, HD cameras take movie-goers backstage for a rare behind-the-scenes view of the Met with host Susan Graham.
For more information and tickets, go to
www.fathomevents.com and www.metoperafamily.org/hdlive.
-BAM
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