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World Premiere
Composer
Librettist
Based On

original sources

Company
San Francisco Opera Association
Location
San Francisco, CA
Venue
War Memorial Opera House
Season
2005-2006
Language
English
Commission

Commissioned by San Francisco Opera

Creative/Crew

Conductor
Director
Set Designer(s)
Costume Designer(s)
Lighting Designer
Choreographer
Sound Designer
Musical Preparation
Chorus Director
Assistant Stage Director(s)
Stage Manager(s)
Dance Master
Dance Captain
Costume Supervisor

Cast

Edward Teller
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Robert Wilson
Kitty Oppenheimer
General Leslie Groves
Jack Hubbard
Captain James Nolan
Pasqualita
Peter Oppenheimer

Show Dates

Time and Place

(Specified in scene breakdown)

Scenes

Act I (The end of June 1945) Scene 1 -- Laboratory, Los Alamos
Scene 2 -- Oppenheimers' house, Los Alamos
(The night of July 15, 1945) Scene 3 -- "Trinity" test site, Alamogordo
INTERMISSION
Act II (Early morning, July 16, 1945), Scene 1 -- Oppenheimers' house, Los Alamos
Scene 2 -- "Trinity" test site, Alamogordo
Scene 3 and 4 -- Countdown (Zero minus twenty minutes)

Media

Sponsors

The performance of October 14th is sponsored by Meyer Sound Laboratories

The performance of October 16th is sponsored by Saintsbury Winery

Acknowledgements

Commission and Production Sponsorship made possible by Roberta Bialek

Additional sponsorship: Jane Bernstein and Bob Ellis; Richard N. Goldman; Leslie & George Hume; The Flora C. Thornton Foundation; The Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation; An Anonymous Donor. Additional support: The National Endowment for the Arts; The Opera Fund, a program of OPERA America.

Legacy Commission

Commissioned by San Francisco Opera

Notes

WORLD PREMIERE

Commissioned by San Francisco Opera

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Co-production with Lyric Opera of Chicago and De Nederlandse Opera