On Saturday, the high-definition broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera will be John Adams' Dr. Atomic. The performance will begin at noon at the Town Plaza Cinema. The encore broadcast will be at 7 ...

The reviews from Monday's opening of "Dr. Atomic" at the Met are starting to come in. John Adams' 2005 opera is about the tense hours leading up to the explosion of the first atom bomb. John Rockwell ...

Doctor Atomic, an opera by composer John Adams, examines the conditions and attitudes in Los Alamos leading up to the Manhattan Project's "Trinity" atomic test. Much of the libretto is made up of ...