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
- Spotlight: Man and Machine in Opera News
- Dallas review by Andrew Sigler in Opera News
- Opera on Screen: Death and the Powers in Opera magazine
- Dallas Opera’s Simulcast — Tod Machover’s Death and the Powers in LOFT
- Keep Dallas Wired: The Dallas Opera Plugs into Death and the Powers in New Music Box
- Review: Dallas Opera’s Futuristic Death and the Powers Faces Life’s Oldest Questions by Wayne Lee Gay in D Magazine
- One Singularity Sensation in Theater Jones
- High-Tech Death Is Brave New World Of Machover Opera in Classical Voice North America
- The Dallas Opera’s Death and the Powers is Weird and Divisive and Just What Dallas Needs in Dallas Observer
- Dallas Opera enters sci-fi space with “Death and the Powers” in The Dallas Morning News
- Review: Dallas Opera goes sci-fi, high-tech with ‘Death and the Powers’ by Scott Cantrell in The Dallas Morning News
- 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
- “Sci-fi opera ‘Death and the Powers’ is doing things differently…with robots” from PBS Newshour
- 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
- “Digital systems for live multimodal performance in Death and the Powers” by Peter Torpey
in the International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media - 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
- “Powers Live: A Global Interactive Opera Simulcast” by 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