Hostname: page-component-78c5997874-s2hrs Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-15T01:49:06.071Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Proms 2004: Adams, Corigliano, Saariaho

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 February 2005

Robert Stein
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Extract

Like its predecessors Nixon in China and The Death of Klinghoffer, the third opera in John Adams's trilogy, Doctor Atomic, seems set fair to juxtapose modern political forces, personalities and moral debate. Here admiration for Robert Oppenheimer and his fellow geniuses who created the atomic bomb is contrasted with the enormity of destruction wreaked on Hiroshima. With over a year to go to the opera's world première by San Francisco Opera, the composer himself conducted Easter Eve 1945, the opening of Act 2, at the Albert Hall on 22 August with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Audra McDonald as soloist.

Type
FIRST PERFORMANCES
Information
Tempo , Volume 59 , Issue 231 , January 2005 , pp. 45 - 47
Copyright
© Cambridge University Press 2005

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)