Great Operatic Arias (Gerald Finley, baritone)

"As the visionary, impeccably tailored nuclear physicist, polymath and father of the bomb, J. Robert Oppenheimer, in [John] Adams’s 'Doctor Atomic,' Mr. Finley came to the notice of intellectuals, scientists and policy makers far beyond the usual opera crowd. ... Oppenheimer’s greatest moment, heard at the end of Act I, is a setting of John Donne’s Holy Sonnet XIV, 'Batter my heart, three-person’d God,' included on Mr. Finley’s dizzyingly eclectic recital album for the Opera in English series on Chandos, released in February. Among that CD’s many surprises are rare Weber, 'Some Enchanted Evening' and bristling appearances by two of opera’s most vicious scoundrels: Scarpia, from Puccini’s 'Tosca' (an opera Mr. Finley has never sung), and Iago, from Verdi’s 'Otello' (which he has recorded in concert ...). An excerpt from Wagner’s 'Meistersinger von Nürnberg' foreshadows his debut in the marathon part of the cobbler and poet Hans Sachs" (Matthew Gurewitsch, "A Long Way from Boy Chorister," New York Times, 11/7/10).

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