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When, in October of last year, John Adams unveiled "Doctor Atomic," his opera of nuclear hubris and fear, he might have been expected to take a week or two off, or, at least, a day. Instead, on the afternoon following the premiere, in San Francisco, he sat down with the director Peter Sellars to plot out a new piece. The two longtime collaborators looked over a volume of South Indian oral tales, as rendered in English by the folklorist A. K. Ramanujan, and chose one about a woman who transforms herself into a tree. "A Flowering Tree," the result of their labors, had its premiere earlier this month at the MuseumsQuartier, in Vienna. The score is opulent, dreamlike, ...