In fact, it is evident that that despite the last sequences being extremely dramatic, the rest of the opera does not succeed in maintaining a balanced narrative tension. Along the same lines, Richard Morrison of The Times remarks that 'It's all interesting, but not exactly action-packed'. Richard Fairman, writing in the Financial Times, observes that 'The librettist, opera producer and long-time Adams collaborator Peter Sellars, does not try to explain the science behind nuclear fission, but even that might have been more intelligible than the artsy patchwork of texts he has come up with'. Originally directed by its librettist Peter Sellars, this new production is directed by Penny Woolcock and designs by Julian Crouch.Īs Rupert Christiansen of The Telegraphsummarizes, 'The opera tells the story of the last phase of the 1945 atom-bomb test at Los Alamos, and specifically focuses on the physicist J Robert Oppenheimer, a sensitive, spiritual, liberal man who was nevertheless prepared to develop a weapon of mass destruction'.īefore delving into Adams's musical merits, most of the critics concentrate on the libretto, which seems to make the whole work problematic. This week, John Adams's Doctor Atomic received its UK premiere at the London Coliseum, in a new version co-produced by ENO and the Metropolitan Opera.
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