This peace grove
Normalized Happiness (Free subscription) | 11/28/2008
Is somewhat buggy. There's also a plaque for Dr. Edward Teller. Read and post comments | Send to a friend
Edward Teller
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A Night At The Opera
Parabasis (Free subscription) | 11/14/2008
... blackboard behind them. It's a striking and beautiful image. In the foreground, Oppenheimer and Edward Teller fret at two desks, as orderlies come and bring them papers. Oppenheimer smokes a ubquitous cigarette. So far so good, right? Okay, theatre folk, pop quiz time. Let us say that you are directing a piece of music, perhaps a musical number or some other moment in a show that...
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Photo Journal: Doctor Atomic at the Met
PlaybillArts.com (Free subscription) | 11/12/2008
... as the Tewa Indian housemaid Pasqualita, baritone Richard Paul Fink as theoretical physicist Edward Teller and Philadelphia-born bass Eric Owens as General Leslie Groves. The creative team is comprised of set designer Julian Crouch, costume designer Catherine Zuber, lighting designer Brian MacDevitt and sound designer Mark Grey. The extensively-used video projections are by Fifty...
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Doctor Atomic Live in HD from the Met
The Allmusic Blog (Free subscription) | 11/12/2008
... interaction — Oppenheimer’s and his wife Kitty’s soliloquies, their bedroom duet, fellow scientist Edward Teller’s stirring up of skepticism about the project, General Leslie Groves’ fractious, arrogant demands, and Robert Wilson’s anxious appeals for a consideration of the moral implications of the scientists’ work. All of these characters are brought to life with a fierce integrity...
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Dispatch from the Met: Doctor Atomic
Sequenza21/ (Free subscription) | 11/03/2008
... is portentous; after an inert debate about the possibility the bomb might ignite the atmosphere, Edward Teller, one of the scientists, offers everyone sun screen. The entire second act fails to establish a common consciousness from which characters’ lines can emerge logically: instead, these lines often sound arbitrary and pretentious. Kitty Oppenheimer is a character almost entirely...
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JUST WHAT DOC ORDERED
New York Post (Free subscription) | 10/20/2008
The singers, most of whom had been involved in the San Francisco premiere, dusted off the complexities of the music with ease. Gerald Finley, as the tortured J. Robert Oppenheimer, director of the bomb-making Manhattan project, was superb, and some sharply etched vignettes come from Richard Paul Fink as a stolid Edward Teller, Eric Owens as the supervising Gen. Groves and particularly...
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