Adams - Doctor Atomic DVD Movie

Adams - Doctor Atomic

List Price	$39.97 (You save $10.38)
Studio	Naxos
Orig Year	2007
All Time Sales Rank	22182
CD Universe Part number	7729117
Catalog number	998
Discs	2
Release Date	Sep 30, 2008
Rating	Not Rated
Running Time	230 Minutes
Additional Info	Subtitled; DTS Sound
Movie Details	Color; DTS Digital Surround Sound; Subtitled; DTS Sound; 2-Disc Set

Adams - Doctor Atomic Movie Review

Average Rating: (5 out of 5 stars) 5 stars

5 stars Un-Toppable
Brilliant drama and libretto. Mr. Adams' music is unobtrusively seamless, and towering. The DvD filming is quite overpowering, and endlessly intriguing. The operatic theme is, of course, critical-mass. The Met version handles the Native American themes more emphatically.
Submitted by n1atb (New Haven, CT)
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5 stars Get it!
Adams at his best. A powerful work.
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The longing to overcome human boundaries lead the physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer to begin an experiment that formed a threat to the whole of humanity, and whose scientific results still do today. The question of the moral implications of the atomic bomb is raised in John Adams' opera, just as much as that of the influence on the private lives of the main characters. Doctor Atomic is the fifth work to result from almost twenty years of collaboration between the American composer and his fellow American director and Erasmus Prize-winner Peter Sellars.

Source: Opus Arte/Naxos

2-Disc Set
Region 0
Anamorphic Widescreen -
1.78
Full Frame -
1.33
Audio:
Dolby Digital 2.0 - English
DTS 5.1 - English
LPCM Stereo - English
Subtitles - German, English, French, Italian, Dutch, Spanish
Additional Release Material:
Documentary: Mini Documentaries About the Opera, Cast, Composer, and Director
Interviews: Stage Director Peter Sellars
Text/Photo Galleries:
Galleries:

1. Cast Gallery
2. Illustrated Synopsis

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