Composer John Adams and director Penny Woolcock discuss the composer’s contemporary masterpiece about the making of the atomic bomb. The opera, which has its Met premiere on October 13, focuses on the days leading up to the first test of Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer’s epoch-shifting invention. “These are Wagnerian topics that are ideally suited to operatic expression,” Adams says.
Robert Lepage is one of theater’s most imaginative and visionary directors, an artist who creates a new visual language for each of his stage works. In this video he describes his use of innovative projections and other technology to tell the timeless Faust story in Berlioz’s magnificent operatic version.
