AP News, August 15th, 2007
The Metropolitan Opera and the English National Opera will co-produce stagings of John Adams' "Doctor Atomic" and a new work by Osvaldo Golijov.
"Doctor Atomic," which had its world premiere at the San Francisco Opera in October 2005, will open at the Met on Oct. 13, 2008, and at the ENO in February 2009, the companies announced Wednesday.
The Golijov opera, with a a libretto by Academy Award winner Anthony Minghella, will have a workshop at the ENO and tentatively is slated for a world premiere in London in 2010. It would appear at the Met during the 2011-12 season.
The Met and ENO co-produced Minghella's new staging of Puccini's "Madama Butterfly" that opened the Met's 2006-7 season and a new production of Philip Glass's "Satyagraha" that will play at the Met next April.
"The combined resources of our companies and schedules allow for greater artistic preparation and development that these new works demand," Met general manager Peter Gelb said. "In the case of `Doctor Atomic,' I believe that this monumental work by John Adams is of such merit that it deserves a production created uniquely for our two stages."
Penny Woolcock will direct "Doctor Atomic," with sets by Julian Crouch of Britain's Improbable theater company. Lawrence Renes will conduct at the ENO and New York Philharmonic music director designate Alan Gilbert at the Met. Baritone Gerald Finley, who created the role of Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer at the world premiere, will sing it in New York and London.
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