Death and the Powers: A Robot Pageant

Death and the Powers doesn’t point the way to a new era of opera. It’s there. Now.
David Patrick Stearns, Philadelphia Inquirer

Passionate intensity. Full-bodied arias in a post-organic world.
Heidi Waleson, Wall Street Journal

Reviews

Death and the Powers, review by Andrew Porter in Opera Magazine
COT’s dazzling ‘robot opera’ poses provocative new questions in Chicago Tribune
Monsters & immortals – seriously in Philadelphia Inquirer
Full-Bodied Arias in a Postorganic World in Wall Street Journal
Tod Machover’s Death and the Powers in Boston Phoenix
Review: Death and the Powers: The Robots’ Opera in Time Out Boston
Death and the Powers: The Robots’ Opera in Variety Reviews
Second Life: Death and the Powers from ART in Boston Globe
Review of Death and the Powers in Opera News
“An Unlikely Confluence of Powers” in Musical America

Media Coverage

Powered up and programmed to perform: Chorus of robots in a starring role from Boston Globe
“Guitar Hero Goes to the Opera: How the video game’s godfather plans to democratize one of the oldest musical art forms” from The Atlantic
“A thoroughly modern opera: Robots enter a new frontier“ in Christian Science Monitor
“A Technology maestro” from The Economist
Musical inventor: The robotic set of my opera emotes from New Scientist
“Opera gets a Machover” from The Sunday Times (London)
Interview with Tod Machover from Nature
“Tod Machover on Composing Music by Computer“ from Smithsonian Magazine

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Publications

“On Future Performance” by Tod Machover in The New York Times
“Guitar Hero” by Tod Machover in the RSA Journal
Disembodied Performance: Abstraction of Representation in Live Theater thesis by Peter Torpey
“Music and Technology in Death and the Powers” by Elena Jessop, Peter Torpey, and Ben Bloomberg
“Disembodied Performance” by Peter Torpey and Elena Jessop
The Chandelier: Toward a Digitally Conceived Physical Performance Object thesis by Steve Pliam
Chandelier: An Exploration in Robotic Musical Instrument Design thesis by Mike Fabio