![]() ![]() His opera The Flowering Tree, at the Jazz at Lincoln Center facility in 2009, was so flat-out beautiful I have yet to recover. 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. Beijing China 2019 Maestro Christopher Allen leading the China National Oper. Reason, your viceroy in me, me should defend,īut is captived, and proves weak or untrue. Baritone, Edward Parks singing Batter my heart from Doctor Atomic by John Adams. Your force, to break, blow, burn, and make me new. John Donne from which Oppenheimer had taken the name Trinity for the. That I may rise, and stand, o’erthrow me, and bend Joyce DiDonato Singers nkoda is really clever it's like a view into the future of making music. The act ends with a magnificent aria, Batter my heart, three-persond God, the sonnet by. ![]() ![]() 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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