The Metropolitan Opera: Doctor Atomic Encore

• 3.0 hours, 21 minutes

Fathom presents an encore presentation of John Adams' "Doctor Atomic" in HD on the Big Screen! The encore presentation (captured live on Saturday, Nov. 8) will be shown for one day only on Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2008, at 7 p.m. in all time zones. John Adams' contemporary masterpiece explores a momentous episode of modern history: the creation of the atomic bomb. Director Penny Woolcock makes her Met debut with this gripping story that changed the course of history. Baritone Gerald Finley plays J. Robert Oppenheimer, with Alan Gilbert conducting.