Patricia Zohn: Culture Zohn: Doctor Atomic: Opera Goes Nuclear

HuffingtonPost: "When the periodic table is projected on the curtain at the outset of Doctor Atomic at the Metropolitan Opera House, you know we are going to get involved in how elements, chemical and human, can rub up against each other with toxic results. To the drone of an airplane, mug shots of the team of scientists who put together the A bomb in remote Los Alamos, New Mexico in the forties, are projected on small, Eames-style cubicles, an ant colony of genius mathematicians and physicists stacked one on top of the other (if you know Robert Longo's work, it is precisely that image). Flotsam and jetsam floats in front of what looks to be a series of white tents."