Doctor Atomic
The Metropolitan Opera’s next Live in HD simulcast of the 2008-09 season.
When: Saturday, Nov. 8, 2008, 10 a.m.
Where: Music Academy of the West, 1070 Fairway Rd., Santa Barbara
Cost: $22
Age limit: Not available
Categories: Classical
Description: A bold new production of Doctor Atomic, John Adams’s masterpiece about theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer’s decisive work on the Manhattan Project, will be the focus of the Metropolitan Opera’s next Live in HD simulcast of the 2008-09 season at the Music Academy of the West. John Adam's contemporary masterpiece explores a momentous episode of modern history: the creation of the atomic bomb. Director Penny Woolcock makes her Metropolitan Opera debut with this gripping story.
The series has met with impressive commercial and critical success, prompting the Met to increase the number of transmissions from eight last season and to rapidly expand its pool of participating venues.
Phone: 805-969-8787
Event posted Aug. 12, 2008
Last updated Oct. 28, 2008
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