Doctor Atomic

Ok, so ya'll gonna fall out when I say this but I will be attending an Opera tonight! Yeah I said Opera! Ya'll don't trip! I likes to get my culture on!

So I told a few friends that I was going and after they stopped laughing I was told some shit. My boy Marco told me, now you know that the Opera ain't inter-active and that I can't be screaming "you sang it girl!" He is so wrong but so right. My ass woulda been shouting "Sing that shit girl!"

Anyway, I'm quite excited since this is my first Opera since 6th grade. Dang, why do I feel like Pretty Woman going to the Oprea but a cuter version. I hope I don't got to pee and I hope its not funny cuz my ass sho do laugh loud! But I guess it wont be funny cuz its about the atomic bomb. Whoops! Buzzkill of a subject. I wonder if they have drinks at the Oprea?

Here is what the Oprea is about:

The first act takes place about a month before the bomb is to be tested, and the second act is set in the early morning of July 15, 1945 (the day of the test). During the second act, time frequently slows down for the characters and then snaps back into reality. The opera ends in the final, prolonged moment before the bomb is detonated. Although the original commission for the opera suggested that U.S. physicist Robert Oppenheimer, the "father of the atomic bomb," be fashioned as a twentieth-century Doctor Faustus, Adams and Sellars deliberately attempted to avoid this characterization.
The work centers on Kitty Oppenheimer, Robert's wife, and her anxiety over her husband's project, set against tensions between key players in the Manhattan Project, especially General Leslie Groves. Sellars adapted the libretto from primary historical sources. The libretto also quotes from the Bhagavad Gita, songs of the Tewa, the Holy Sonnets of John Donne, and the poetry of Muriel Rukeyser.
Doctor Atomic is similar in style to previous Adams operas Nixon in China and The Death of Klinghoffer, both of which explored the characters and personalities that were involved in historical incidents, rather than a re-enactment of the events themselves.