Wonders Are Many: The Making Of Doctor Atomic

Jon Else's unusual and sometimes beautiful film documents a rare cultural moment when art, history and science collided: The making of composer John Adams and director/librettist Peter Sellar's opera Doctor AtomicNixon in China, The Death of Klinghoffer), but Doctor Atomic, their fifth, was a challenge even by their own unconventional standards. The opera would not only detail the two days leading up to the testing of the first atomic bomb at Trinity Site in the New Mexico desert on July 16, 1945, but hopefully off...