John Adams- Doctor Atomic- Batter My Heart

The Lyric Opera of Chicago website (is offering a wealth of information on Doctor Atomic: three articles on the work's background, New York Times coverage of the opera's 2005 world premiere, photos of the staged production and archival photos of the characters' real-life counterparts. Robert Spano, the dynamic music director of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and a major champion of new American music, will conduct the eight performances from tonight through Jan. Playing Pasqualita, the Oppenheimers' Mexican housekeeper, is contralto Meredith Arwady, a member of Lyric's Ryan Opera Center for young artists and a 2007 winner of a $10,000 Richard Tucker Foundation Career Grant. (She has filled in for Dawn Upshaw in recent revivals of El Niê±o and created the central role of Kumudha in Adams's most recent opera, A Flowering Tree.) Adams has since recast the role for soprano taking the part in Chicago will be Jessica Rivera, who has become an Adams specialist over the past year or so. The key role of Oppenheimer's wife Kitty was originally composed for the late mezzo Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, who was too ill to perform in the opera's 2005 premiere run in San Francisco and who succumbed to cancer in July of 2006. Leslie Groves, baritone James Maddalena as Jack Hubbard and tenor Thomas Glenn as Robert Wilson (the physicist, not the director).

Robert Oppenheimer, which he created, with baritone Richard Paul Fink as Edward Teller, bass Eric Owens as Gen.

government documents concerning the Manhattan Project as well as poetry by (among others) Charles Baudelaire, John Donne and Muriel Rukeyser and excerpts from the Bhagavad-Gita.īaritone Gerald Finley returns to the central role of J. Sellars also compiled and adapted the libretto, which is drawn from declassified U.S. Lyric Opera is presenting the original staging by director Peter Sellars. Lyric Opera co-commissioned the work with San Francisco Opera, which presented the world premiere in October 2005, and the Netherlands Opera, which gave the European premiere this past summer as part of the Holland Festival.

John Adams- Doctor Atomic- Batter My Heart