The only thing that I will do that will annoy some people is I am taking poetic license a little bit with time and space onstage,

Basically the first half-hour of the opera is an extended prologue, which is all material from the first two weeks of July 1945, ... Germany has just capitulated. Truman is meeting Stalin at Potsdam, which is where all this pressure comes from for the test to work. Oppenheimer has been in these meetings in Washington to select the target, and it's full steam ahead to Japan.

John sets it for Gerry [Gerald Finley, the baritone singing Oppenheimer] and full orchestra as a personal chaconne. Of course, you know that Robert Oppenheimer would be somebody who would have gone to an Alfred Deller concert or would have Alfred Deller records,

There are people who will be affected by this who don't even know about it yet.

Everyone will be gunning for him. He'll be a marked man; he'll have a big 'X' on his back. People will watch his every move. There's no way he'll have a 24-minute lead on the bike (like last year against Reid).

We will finish what we started. We will ensure that the people of Bundaberg will get justice.