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Doctor Atomic

Sometimes it seems as if horror is the only story that science has to tell, or the only one we want to hear. Somebody has a gadget they have to build, an experiment too sweet to resist, forces they need to probe, regardless of the consequences. Think of Eve with her apple, Frankenstein with his monster, a stock trader with a foolproof get-rich-quick scheme.

I shouldn’t have to tell you that it usually ends badly.

The tug of war between beauty and horror is the theme of “Doctor Atomic”, the opera by John Adams and Peter Sellars about the building of the atomic bomb, which opened last week at the Metropolitan Opera.

Quién viviera en Nueva York para asistir a esta cosa. ¡Una ópera atómica! No podría ser más épico ni aunque las piezas musicales fueran de Blind Guardian.