- "Director Peter Sellars has an unusual new creation -- turning the world's first atomic bomb project into music." Associated Press
- "The opera, which is set in 1945 in the final hours leading up to the first atomic explosion, is indeed a community effort for the Bay Area, connecting the Berkeley-based composer not only with Oppenheimer, a former professor of the University of California (Berkeley), but also with local events observing the 60th anniversary of the United Nations, a conference of the American Physical Society celebrating 2005 as the World Year of Physics, a seminar on Oppenheimer at the Stanford University Institute for International Studies, and a Bay Area film festival of 'post-atomic' films and 'mad scientist' movies dating back to the 1920s." Gramaphone
- "There's more than a little irony in the fact that a man named Peter Sellars (a noted opera director) is behind the project." Boing Boing
- "The story focuses on a night in July 1945, during a rainstorm, when the brilliantly charming Oppenheimer and his youthful team prepared to test detonate the first atomic bomb at their secret location near Los Alamos." Martinis, Persistence, and a Smile
- "In this photo released by the San Francisco Opera, composer John Adams, left, listens to director Peter Sellars as he explains his idea about the premiere of Adam's new Opera "Doctor Atomic," as San Francisco Opera's general director Pamela Rosenberg looks on in New York." Washington Post
- '"This is an awesome subject that can't be dealt with in a rational way," Adams said. "It's about flesh-and-blood people screaming at each other, and loving one another." CBC Arts
- For Dr. Atomic, Adams's angel was Edgard Varèse, whom he described as the "original post-nuclear composer."' newmusicbox
- "We ready ourselves...musically and otherwise." In the Wings
The Overture clip (here, click on Music for .mov files) sounds a bit dangerous and threatening. Although the texture is compelling, I'm not sure I'm ready for the idea of ominous music in ominous times i.e. now.
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