batter my heart from doctor atomic melody

Sellars wrote or, more accurately, assembled the libretto for the opera, fashioning passages from interviews with project participants, history books, conversation transcripts, memoirs, declassified security documents and poetry, notably “The Holy Sonnets” of John Donne. Robert Oppenheimer, who presided over the Manhattan Project to build the first atomic bomb.

Sellars was closely involved in the creative process that produced this ambitious, haunting work about the physicist J. The situation was complicated, because Mr. It is rare for an opera composer to have a second production of a new piece so soon. So on Monday night the Met presented its own staging of “Doctor Atomic” by the British film director Penny Woolcock, in her Met debut.

But he was unimpressed by the Sellars productions. Peter Gelb, the general manager of the Metropolitan Opera, wanted to bring “Doctor Atomic” to New York. Most composers would consider that a terrific send-off for a new opera. After the premiere of John Adams’s “Doctor Atomic” at the San Francisco Opera in October 2005, the original staging by the director Peter Sellars made its way to the other two companies that produced the work: the Netherlands Opera in Amsterdam and the Lyric Opera of Chicago.

Batter my heart from doctor atomic melody