The European premiere of the opera by the contemporary American composer John Adams, with libretto by Peter Sellars, in a co-production of the San Francisco Opera (where the work premiered), the Lyric Opera of Chicago, and De Nederlandse Opera. The plot focuses on the great stress and anxiety experienced by those at Los Alamos while the test of the first atomic bomb (the "Trinity" test) was being prepared.
Gerald Finley
as J. Robert Oppenheimer
Jessica Rivera
as Kitty Oppenheimer
Eric Owens
as Gen. Leslie Groves
Richard Paul Fink
as Edward Teller
James Maddalena
as Jack Hubbard
Thomas Glenn
as Robert Wilson
Jay Hunter Morris
as Capt. James Nolan
Ellen Rabiner
as Pasqualita
