Directed by Dominick DiOrio. Five movements: I - Landscape With The Fall Of Icarus (text by William Carlos Williams); II - July (Linda Allardt); III - Flying At Night (Ted Kooser); IV - Flying Inside Your Own Body (Margaret Atwood) ; V - Night City (Elizabeth Bishop).
Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen, countertenor; JoAnn Falletta, conductor. Text from twelve poems from 2014 by Judith G. Wolf, grouped in five movements: Prologue - Ethereal, Times Slips Away; I - Gary Died, Just like That, Watching for Death, Face; II - Sisters, Forever Gone, The Retreat; III - The Dream; Epilogue - Conversation, Epiphany.
Aubrey Allicock, bass-baritone (General Leslie Groves); Julia Bullock, soprano (Kitty Oppenheimer); Marcus Farnsworth, baritone (Frank/Jack Hubbard); Gerald Finley, baritone (Robert Oppenheimer); Jennifer Johnston, mezzo-soprano (Pasqualita); Brindley Sherratt, bass (Edward Teller); Andrew Staples, tenor (Robert Wilson); John Adams, conductor. Libretto by Peter Sellars, drawn from original sources. Seven parts: I - "It's midnight, Jack"; II - "I've dreamed the same dream"; III - "To the farthest west, the sea and the striped country"; IV - "A delay in the Potsdam Ultimatum"; V - "Fermi is taking wagers"; VI - "I've spent a great deal of time indulging in controlled fantasies"; VII - "Edward, the test will be delayed an hour".
