Songs in Doctor Atomic

Act One

Overture

• ‘We believed that “energy can be neither created nor destroyed”’ - Chorus

Scene 1

• ‘The end of June 1945’ - Chorus
• ‘First of all let me say’ - Teller, Oppenheimer
• ‘We surround the plutonium core’ - Women’s chorus
• ‘We are bedeviled by faulty detonators’ - Oppenheimer, Teller, Wilson
• ‘The test must go on as scheduled’ - Oppenheimer, Teller, Chorus
• ‘Our only hope is to convince ev'rybody’ - Teller, Wilson, Oppenheimer

Scene 2

• ‘Am I in your light?’ - Kitty
• ‘Long let me inhale’ - Oppenheimer
• ‘Ah, the motive of it all was loneliness’ - Kitty, Oppenheimer

Scene 3

• Electrical Storm
• ‘What the hell is wrong with the weather?’ - Groves, Oppenheimer, Hubbard
• ‘Five hundred U.S. Superfortresses are raining bombs’ - Groves, Hubbard, Oppenheimer
• ‘I’ll sign the report, sir’ - Hubbard, Groves
• ‘With respect, sir, anyone with two good eyes’ - Nolan, Groves, Oppenheimer
• ‘I have been preoccupied with many matters’ - Groves, Nolan, Oppenheimer
• ‘Get them out of here’ - Groves, Oppenheimer
• ‘General, you are bearing up with remarkable fortitude’ - Oppenheimer, Groves
• ‘Batter my heart’ - Oppenheimer

Act Two

Scene 1

• ‘Easter Eve, 1945’ - Kitty
• Interlude: Rain over the Sangre de Cristos
• ‘In the north the cloud-flower blossoms’ - Pasqualita

Scene 2

• ‘It’s midnight, Jack’ - Wilson, Hubbard
• ‘I’ve dreamed the same dream’ - Wilson, Pasqualita
• ‘To the farthest west, the sea’ - Kitty, Pasqualita
• ‘A delay in the Potsdam Ultimatum’ - Groves, Pasqualita,
• ‘Fermi is taking wagers’ - Teller, Groves, Oppenheimer
• ‘I’ve spent a great deal of time indulging’ - Teller, Oppenheimer
• ‘Edward, the test will be delayed an hour’ - Teller, Oppenheimer, Hubbard, Pasqualita

Scene 3, Countdown Part 1

• ‘Panic’ - Chorus
• ‘This program has been plagued from the start’ - Groves, Offstage Voice, Chorus, Oppenheimer
• ‘To keep the weakness secret’ - Oppenheimer, Kitty, Pasqualita, Wilson, Chorus
• ‘The winter dawned, but the dead did not come back’ - Pasqualita, Kitty, Oppenheimer,
• ‘The only saviors are the ham sandwiches’ - Teller
• ‘At the Sight of This’ - Chorus

Scene 4, Countdown Part II

• ‘Lieutenant Bush, keep a weather eye on Oppenheimer’ - Groves, Teller, Chorus
• ‘To what benevolent demon’ - Oppenheimer, Chorus
• ‘That’s their signal!’ - Oppenheimer
• ‘The sky is clear to the east’ - Hubbard, Pasqualita
• ‘In the midnight, in the flame-brilliant midnight’ - Kitty
• ‘Zero minus two minutes’ - Oppenheimer, Teller
• ‘Countdown’ - Chorus