Music by John Adams
Libretto by Peter Sellars

Badisches Staatstheater 
Karlsruhe, Germany 
January 2014

Revived at the Teatro de Maestranza
Seville, Spain 
March 2015

Director: Yuval Sharon
Conductor: Johannes Willig
Stage Designer: Dirk Becker
Costume Designer: Sarah Rolke
Animation: Benedikt Dichgans, Philipp Engelhart, Andreas Grindler
Dramaturgy: Bernd Feuchtner

Sharon received the Götz Friedrich Prize for best opera direction for this production of John Adams’s opera about the detonation of the atomic bomb. His staging featured two diverse aesthetics articulating the different acts: a comic-book approach to the first act, with video projections and sliding panels offering quick shifts of perspectives and scale; and a larger-than-life blank page of graph paper, dwarfing the individual actors of history into a realm of possible outcomes.

Photography provided courtesy of Badisches Staatstheater.