One section of it draws its text from the (*) Smyth Report, while the last act ends with the beginning of an "era" after another character had been ordered around by Commander Leslie Groves.
One aria in this work ends "All my peace is gone, my heart is troubled" and is drawn from a Muriel Rukeyser poem. In an "orchestral interlude" this piece depicts rain over the Sangre de Cristos Mountains. The title character of this work quotes John Donne's "Batter my heart, three person'd God" and carries around a pocket book of Baudelaire's poems, whose text "A Hemisphere in Your Hair" is recited by the title character's wife. One section of it draws its text from the (*) Smyth Report, while the last act ends with the beginning of an "era" after another character had been ordered around by Commander Leslie Groves. This work's last scene sees one character quote the Bhagavad Gita's lines "Behold, I am become death, the destroyer of the worlds" after he and Edward Teller have performed some tests at Los Alamos. For 10 points, name this opera about Robert Oppenheimer, a work of composer John Adams.
One aria in this work ends "All my peace is gone, my heart is troubled" and is drawn from a Muriel Rukeyser poem.
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