Fallout

The Standing Room reports on the last night

And so does Robert Gable.

Reviewers on Doctor Atomic:

• Anthony Tommasini in the N.Y. Times


• Joshua Kosman in the S. F. Chronicle


• Janos Gereben at San Diego Magazine On Line


• Allan Ulrich in SFCV


• Rich Scheinin's review in the San Jose Mercury News


• Rich Scheinin's preview article in the Mercury News


• Mark Swed in the L. A. Times


• Michelle Locke of the AP, I think or that is how the article appears at the Seattle Post Intelligencer, anyway.


• Pierre Ruhe in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution


• Tiger Hashimoto in the S. F. Examiner


• Scott Cantrell in the Dallas Morning News


• Timothy Mangan in the Orange County Register


• Justin Davidson in Newsday


• Stephanie von Buchau at Inside the Bay Area (review from the Oakland Tribune)


• Andrew Clark in the Financial Times


• Lawrence A. Johnson in the Sun-Sentinel


• Timothy Andres in the Yale Daily News


• Paul Liberatore in the Marin Independent Journal


• Steve Winn in the S. F. Chronicle


• Victoria Looseleaf in the Herald News Daily


• An anonymous editorial writer in the S. F. Chronicle


• An anonymous Reuters article in the Deccan Herald


• Allan Ulrich in The Guardian (UK)


• Wynne Delacoma in the Chicago Sun-Times


• Dennis Harvey in Variety


• Heidi Walseson in the Wall Street Journal


• Rupert Christiansen in the Telegraph (UK)


• David Patrick Stearns in the Philadelphia Inquirer, care of Andante


• Alan Rich in L. A. Weekly (love that headline!)


• Chloe Veltman in S. F. Weekly


• Science writer Dennis Overbye in the NY Times


• John Fleming in the St. Petersberg Times Floridian


• Karren Alenier at Scene4 Magazine says Doctor Atomic is Alive!


• Renate Stendahl at Scene4 Magazine says Doctor Atomic is Dead!


• Ben Mattison at Variety, not really a review, but there are photos of the production by Terrence McCarthy

And in the blogosphere:

• Alex Ross's Atomic Photojournal (His New Yorker article, in the October 3 issue, is not available on line.)


• A few post-premiere comments from Alex. My question: where were he and Tommasini sitting? From orchestra rear, seat X-5, the singer/orchestra balances were just fine.


• Alex comments on the commentary, which is all over the map.


• Heather Heise at Musewings


• Cedric at SFist


• Karren L. Alenier in Ionarts (not Charles Downey, as previously credited)


• Jay Dean at Bird's Eye View


• SF Mike on a preview by Sarah Cahill


• Brendonesq on the final dress, his first opera experience!


• Jon Anthony Carr at Sparkle, Neely, Sparkle


• The Standing Room, where there is a nice little discussion going


• Michael Kaulkin at About the Composer


• Lisa at Iron Tongue of Midnight

In the blogosphere, but from writers who haven't yet seen Doctor Atomic:

• Greg Sandow on relevance I'm not having any difficult imagining the relevance of an opera about science, politics, and conscience to today's world. Le Nozze di Figaro, an operatic comedy about droit du seigneur, manages to sell out theaters world over, too.


• Steve Hicken at Listen, with interesting comments about the effects of the attention surrounding any new work by John Adams.


• Tim Johnson on hype and relevance, plus there are comments worth reading by both Tim and a reader, Jim, who saw the premiere and was disappointed.

Final Update: Your best bet for tracking fallout in the blogosphere will be a new Google feature; it's in beta, but it works just fine as far as I can tell: Google blog search.

The Real Final Update, well, not quite: Additional opinions may be found at the Archives of Opera-l.

First posted on October 2; updated October 4, 6, 7, 10, 12, 14, 17, 18, 23, and 24, 2005; November 1, 2005. You didn't really think I was done, did you?