John Adams- Doctor Atomic- Batter My Heart

During the second act, time is shown slowing down for the characters and then snapping back to the clock. The first act takes place about a month before the bomb is to be tested, and the second act is set in the early morning of J(the day of the test). Else about the creation of the opera and collaboration between Adams and Sellars, titled Wonders Are Many. In 2007, a documentary was made by Jon H. The work focuses on how leading figures at Los Alamos dealt with the great stress and anxiety of preparing for the test of the first atomic bomb (the ' Trinity' test). It premiered at the San Francisco Opera on October 1, 2005. Overall, excellent.Doctor Atomic is an opera by the contemporary American composer John Adams, with libretto by Peter Sellars. Sasha Cooke is a very well sung and acted Kitty, though I marginally prefer Jessica Rivera in Sellars' production particularly for how beautifully done Am I in your light? Also highly effective are Richard Paul Fink who is dramatically powerful and vocally resonant as Teller, and Eric Ownes as Groves who displays a sonorous baritone and expressive acting making you feel amusement and pity for him. His Batter my Heart is one of the highlights of the opera and performed with such poignancy here. Gerald Finley is simply superb as Oppenheimer, he is athletic and his voice is still handsome. You couldn't have asked for better singing too. The orchestra perform this fine but very difficult work superbly, the conducting is brisk and sensitive and the chorus work is among the best the chorus have sung for these HD performances. The costumes and sets are highly atmospheric, and the staging and choreography are interesting. The high definition as you would expect does look great, with clear sound, imaginative camera work and sharp picture quality. This production is excellent and one of the better Met HD productions recently. John Adams' Doctor Atomic is a remarkable work and one of the more interesting contemporary operas.

John Adams- Doctor Atomic- Batter My Heart