Opera on 3 - Live from the Met - John Adams's Doctor Atomic

In a performance given in November 2008 at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York, Alan Gilbert conducts John Adams's opera, treating the subject of the atomic bomb, which is the latest in a series of works dealing with resonant moments in 20th-Century history. Bass-baritone Gerald Finley portrays Robert J Oppenheimer, the highly cultivated scientific genius whose profound humanism is at odds with his role as the head of the project to create a weapon of unprecedented destructive force. Presented by Margaret Juntwait. Edward Teller ...... Richard Paul Fink (bass-baritone) J Robert Oppenheimer ...... Gerald Finley (bass-baritone) Robert Wilson ...... Thomas Glenn (tenor) Kitty Oppenheimer ...... Sasha Cooke (mezzo-soprano) General Leslie Groves ...... Eric Owens (bass) Frank Hubbard ...... Earle Patriarco (baritone) Captain James Nolan ...... Roger Honeywell (tenor) Pasqualita ...... Meredith Arwady (mezzo-soprano) Chorus and Orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera House, New York Alan Gilbert (conductor).