Doctor Atomic (San Francisco 2005)
John Adams, BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Singers, Gerald Finley (Baritone), Julia Bullock (Soprano), Brindley Sherratt (Bass), Andrew Staples (Tenor), Jennifer Johnston (Mezzo-soprano), Aubrey Allicock (Baritone), Marcus Farnsworth (Baritone), Samuel Sakker (Tenor)
April 2017, London, Barbican
- 05:11Overture
Act I
- 04:191. The end of June 1945 (Chorus)
- 02:162. First of all, let me say (Oppie, Teller)
- 01:433. We surround the plutonium core (Chorus)
- 01:314. We are bedeviled by faulty detonators (Oppie, Teller)
- 02:275. Many of us are inclined to say (Teller, Chorus)
- 02:176. The nation's fate... (Oppie, Wilson)
- 02:437. This is a petition (Oppie, Teller, Wilson)
- 02:038. What if it's a dud? (Oppie, Teller, Wilson)
- 03:219. The test must go on as scheduled (Oppie, Teller, Chorus)
- 04:0710. No. Before the bomb is used (Oppie, Teller, Wilson, Chorus)
- 04:3111. Am I in your light? (Kitty)
- 06:2712. Long let me inhale, deeply... (Oppie)
- 04:2513. The motive of it all was loneliness (Kitty, Oppie)
- 02:1814. Electrical storm
- 02:3415. What the hell is wrong with the weather? (Groves, Oppie, Hubbard)
- 04:0716. Five hundred U.S. Superfortresses are raining bombs (Groves, Oppie, Hubbard)
- 01:1917. I'll sign the report, sir (Groves, Oppie, Hubbard)
- 03:0118. With respect, sir, anyone with two good eyes (Nolan, Groves, Oppie)
- 02:3219. I have been preoccupied with many matters (Nolan, Groves, Oppie)
- 04:0520. Get them out of here. From now on I'm making my own weather predictions (Groves)
- 03:1821. General, you are bearing up with remarkable fortitude (Groves, Oppie)
- 07:3422. Batter my heart (Oppie)
Act II
- 12:001. Easter Eve 1945 (Kitty)
- 02:572. Interlude: Rain over the Sangre de Cristo
- 01:543. In the north the cloud-flower blossoms (Pasqualita)
- 05:124. It's midnight, Jack (Wilson, Hubbard)
- 02:495. I've dreamed the same dream (Wilson, Pasqualita)
- 03:366. To the farthest west, the sea and the striped country (Kitty, Pasqualita)
- 01:017. A delay in issuing the Potsdam ultimatum (Groves)
- 02:168. Fermi is taking wagers (Teller, Groves, Oppie)
- 03:379. I've spent a great deal of time indulging in controlled fantasies (Teller, Oppie)
- 03:0210. Edward, the test will be delayed an hour (Teller, Groves, Oppie, Hubbard, Pasqualita)
- 02:5311. Panic
- 01:3012. The program has been plagued from the start (Groves, Oppie)
- 02:1213. To keep the weakness secret (Kitty, Pasqualita)
- 02:1514. I just finished reading the Magic Mountain (Wilson, Oppie)
- 01:5415. The winter dawned, but the dead did not come back (Pasqualita)
- 03:0116. And love which contains all human spirit (Kitty, Oppie)
- 02:2817. The only saviors are ham sandwiches (Teller, Groves, Oppie)
- 04:4218. At the sight of this (Chorus)
- 01:3319. Lieutenant Bush. Keep a weather eye on Oppenheimer (Teller, Groves)
- 02:4220. To what benevolent demon do I owe the joy of being thus surrounded (Oppie)
- 02:1821. That's their signal (Oppie)
- 02:5922. The sky is clear to the east (Hubbard, Pasqualita)
- 03:0623. In the midnight, in the flame-brilliant midnight (Kitty)
- 01:0424. Zero minus two minutes (Oppie, Teller)
- 06:0525. Countdown
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