In the desert of Los Alamos in 1945, J. Robert Oppenheimer and his team race to complete the first atomic bomb as the Trinity test approaches. As the countdown begins, Oppenheimer grapples with the moral weight of what he has created, drawing on the poetry of John Donne and the Bhagavad Gita. John Adams's gripping contemporary opera transforms the birth of the nuclear age into a meditation on science, conscience, and humanity's capacity for self-destruction.
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