Several tableaux that play during a storm at this character's workplace were adapted into the "Panic" movement of a symphony based on the opera.
Several tableaux that play during a storm at this character's workplace were adapted into the "Panic" movement of a symphony based on the opera. This character says "My eyes / Splitting the skull to tickle your brain with love" during a talk with his wife that is accompanied by settings of poetry by Muriel Rukeyser and Charles Baudelaire. This character uses the words "omnipresent / Shouldering the sky like hues of rainbow" to describe his vision of Vishnu. Act II features (*) Tewa songs sung by this character's maid Pasqualita. The libretto for this character, which was created by Peter Sellars, quotes from John Donne's "Batter My Heart, Three-Personed God." This opera character quotes from the Bhagavad Gita, just like his real-life inspiration who said "I am become death, destroyer of worlds." For 10 points, identify this nuclear scientist, the subject of Doctor Atomic by John Adams.
Several tableaux that play during a storm at this character's workplace were adapted into the "Panic" movement of a symphony based on the opera.
J(ohn) Robert Oppenheimer [prompt on Doctor Atomic until it is read]