In February, he will bring its explosive mix of high-impact music and probing, thought-provoking drama to the English National Opera in London for nine performances.
“I’ve created the tradition of Oppenheimer because it’s a very demanding role, I’m on stage for 62 of the 65 minutes of the first act,” Finley told Reuters in a recent interview at a Starbucks in London. Since then he’s sung it more than 40 times in Chicago, Amsterdam and most recently in New York. The opera, set in New Mexico, where the first bomb was exploded, had its premiere in 2005 in San Francisco, with Finley singing the title role. Robert Oppenheimer who, as scientific director of the Manhattan Project, is known as “the father of the atomic bomb.”
REUTERS/Dino Vournasįinley, 48, is the lead in “Doctor Atomic,” the opera by American composer John Adams and librettist Peter Sellars about J. Robert Oppenheimer and Kristine Jepson, portraying his wife Kitty, perform during a dress rehearsal performance of John Adams' and Peter Sellars' opera," Doctor Atomic" at the War Memorial Opera House in San Francisco September 28, 2005.
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