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(Adams's iconic 'Nixon in China' comes to the house this season.) And a review of the Met's 2008 production is here. A review of last night's BSO program is here. Anyone curious to hear how the music sounds in Adams's original vocal conception can click here for a stirring performance by bass-baritone Gerald Finley. The words he sings are taken from a poem the real Oppenheimer deeply admired, John Donne's Holy Sonnet XIV ('Batter my heart, three-personed God').Īdams's 'Doctor Atomic' Symphony lets the instruments do the singing, and last night in Symphony Hall, BSO principal trumpet Thomas Rolfs delivered the Oppenheimer solo with a limpid tone and an eloquent sense of understatement. The symphony ends with an adaptation of one of the opera's most potent passages, a solo sung by Oppenheimer in which he pours out his troubled conscience on the night before the testing of the first atomic bomb.

This week's BSO program led by David Robertson includes the 'Doctor Atomic' Symphony, based on music John Adams wrote for his hauntingly powerful opera about Oppenheimer and the development of the first atomic bomb.

Batter my heart three personed god youtube doctor atomic