![]() ![]() His opera The Flowering Tree, at the Jazz at Lincoln Center facility in 2009, was so flat-out beautiful I have yet to recover. The story is based on Richard Rhodes' book 'The Making of the Atomic Bomb,' and John Adams admits that the title of the opera, 'Doctor Atomic,' has the ring of a 1950s B-movie. Beijing China 2019 Maestro Christopher Allen leading the China National Oper. Yet dearly I love you, and would be loved fain,ĭivorce me, untie, or break that knot again,Įxcept you enthrall me, never shall be free,Īdams’ Nixon in China will be the next Metropolitan Opera HD broadcast, on Saturday, 2/12. Baritone, Edward Parks singing Batter my heart from Doctor Atomic by John Adams. Reason, your viceroy in me, me should defend,īut is captived, and proves weak or untrue. ![]() Your force, to break, blow, burn, and make me new. That I may rise, and stand, o’erthrow me, and bend Atomic (about Robert Oppenheimer and the setting off of the first atomic bomb):īatter my heart, three-person’d God for youĪs yet but knock breathe, shine, and seek to mend John Donne’s plea in Holy Sonnet XIV that grace will break his captive will, set to necessarily inadequate but characteristically gorgeous music by John Adams and sung by bass-baritone Gerald Finley in the Adams opera Dr. Mockingbird’s resident opera aficionado Ken Wilson offers forth a truly breathtaking moment of beauty: ![]()
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