Out West Arts (Free subscription) | 09/11/2008
Gerald Finley and cast Photo: Ken Howard/Met 2008 No matter whatever shortcomings exist with the Metropolitan Opera’s new production of John Adam’s Doctor Atomic, the fact that it made it to the stage here at all is undoubtedly a major achievement for this company. What effect recent financial woes will have on general director Peter Gelb’s intention to further move the company in this...
PXDCO Reviews (Free subscription) | 19/11/2008
... Woolcock makes her Met debut with this gripping story that changed the course of history. Baritone Gerald Finley plays J. Robert… [ more ] Click Here to download The Metropolitan Opera: Doctor Atomic Encore Bookmark It Hide Sites
PlaybillArts.com (Free subscription) | 12/11/2008
Photo Journal: Doctor Atomic at the Metand Samantha SouzaThe Metropolitan Opera's company debut of John Adams' Doctor Atomic - exploring a momentous episode of modern history: the creation of the atomic bomb - will complete its run Nov. 13 at 8 PM.Staged by Penny Woolcock and conducted by Alan Gilbert, the production stars Canadian baritone Gerald Finley as physicist Robert Oppenheimer-...
CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 06/11/2008
"There's not a greater metaphor for the tensions and potential destructive nature of human beings ... as the atomic bomb," according to Canadian baritone Gerald Finley, who finds portraying the infamous J. Robert Oppenheimer in Doctor Atomic "incredibly rewarding."
arty smarty (Free subscription) | 09/11/2008
... interviews and archive footage before the first act. Then, at the interval, Graham grabbed Gerald Finley (Oppenheimer) as he left the stage and we were treated to live backstage interviews with him and composer John Adams.If you had any reservations about seeing an opera at the cinema, feel confident to shed them now. My first experience of the Met's cinema season has left me hungry...
PXDCO Reviews (Free subscription) | 08/11/2008
... Woolcock makes her Met debut with this gripping story that changed the course of history. Baritone Gerald Finley plays J. Robert Oppenheimer,… [ more ] Click Here to download The Metropolitan Opera: Doctor Atomic Bookmark It Hide Sites
NewYorkology: A New York Travel Gui (Free subscription) | 30/10/2008
... as Robertson Conducts Copland, Bernstein, Carter and Rouse“” at the Met Opera with baritone Gerald Finley as J. Robert Oppenheimer at 8 p.m. at Carnegie Hall’s Perelman Stage at 8 p.m. at Madison Square Garden vs. ThrashersDiscussion: at the New Museum with filmmaker Roddy Bogawa, conceptual artist Sandy Gellis, video artist Paul Tschinkel, and digital artist Annette Weintraub at...
The Allmusic Blog (Free subscription) | 28/10/2008
... baritone - Extase Jessye Norman, soprano - L’invitation au voyage Lynne Dawson, soprano - Lamento Gerald Finley, baritone - Le Galop Kiri Te Kanawa, soprano - Le manoir de Rosamonde Françoise Pollet, soprano - Phidylé Catherine Robbin, mezzo-soprano - Romance de Mignon Paul Derenne, tenor - Sérénade florentine Paul Groves, tenor - Soupir Bernard Kruyson, baritone - Testament Gérard...
PlaybillArts.com (Free subscription) | 26/10/2008
Metropolitan Opera: Poetic DeviceBy Thomas May26 Oct 2008 Gerald Finley as J. Robert Oppenheimerphoto by Ken HowardOpera inevitably deals with characters caught in larger-than-life emotional or political turmoil. But in the case of John Adams's Doctor Atomic - which had its Met premiere on October 13 - the subject matter is particularly compelling.The opera, in a new production by acclaimed...
HarbourLiving.ca (Free subscription) | 28/10/2008
AdamsDoctor AtomicMet PremiereNovember 8, 2008, 10amDirector Penny Woolcock makes her Met debut directing John Adams’s contemporary masterpiece about a momentous episode of modern history: the creation of the atomic bomb. Baritone Gerald Finley plays J. Robert Oppenheimer, with Alan Gilbert conducting.BerliozLa Damnation de FaustNew ProductionNovember 22, 2008, 10amBerlioz’s contemplation...
NewYorkology: A New York Travel Gui (Free subscription) | 25/10/2008
... p.m. at the Met Opera with Diana Damrau and Anna Netrebko at 1 p.m. at the Met Opera with baritone Gerald Finley as J. Robert Oppenheimer at 8:30 p.m. Leonard Bernstein on Film, Program 7: at 2 p.m. at the Walter Reade Theater at Jazz at Lincoln CenterbeginsWhirling Dervishes at the at 6 p.m. at BB Kings at Madison Square Garden vs. PenguinsFinal weekend of the season for the Steam...
HarbourLiving.ca (Free subscription) | 24/10/2008
... Woolcock makes her Met debut with this gripping story that changed the course of history. Baritone Gerald Finley plays J. Robert Oppenheimer, the title character.Conductor: Alan Gilbert; Production: Penny Woolcock; Sasha Cooke, Meredith Arwady, Gerald Finley, Eric Owens, Richard Paul FinkThaïs (New Production) – MassenetSaturday, December 20, 2008 (9:00 am PT)Renée Fleming...
HarbourLiving.ca (Free subscription) | 24/10/2008
... Woolcock makes her Met debut with this gripping story that changed the course of history. Baritone Gerald Finley plays J. Robert Oppenheimer, the title character.Conductor: Alan Gilbert; Production: Penny Woolcock; Sasha Cooke, Meredith Arwady, Gerald Finley, Eric Owens, Richard Paul FinkThaïs (New Production) – MassenetSaturday, December 20, 2008 (9:00 am PT)Renée Fleming...
HarbourLiving.ca (Free subscription) | 24/10/2008
... Woolcock makes her Met debut with this gripping story that changed the course of history. Baritone Gerald Finley plays J. Robert Oppenheimer, the title character.Conductor: Alan Gilbert; Production: Penny Woolcock; Sasha Cooke, Meredith Arwady, Gerald Finley, Eric Owens, Richard Paul FinkThaïs (New Production) – MassenetSaturday, December 20, 2008 (9:00 am PT)Renée Fleming...
HarbourLiving.ca (Free subscription) | 23/10/2008
... Woolcock makes her Met debut with this gripping story that changed the course of history. Baritone Gerald Finley plays J. Robert Oppenheimer, the title character.Conductor: Alan Gilbert; Production: Penny Woolcock; Sasha Cooke, Meredith Arwady, Gerald Finley, Eric Owens, Richard Paul FinkThaïs (New Production) – MassenetSaturday, December 20, 2008 (9:00 am PT)Renée Fleming...
