Press

Tod Machover is Musical America’s 2016 Composer of the Year

Translating the Music of Trees Into the Sounds of Opera

“Death and the Powers” a Finalist for 2012 Pulitzer Prize in Music

Buzz from the world premiere performances of Schoenberg in Hollywood

The New York Times on “Cheesesteak at Carnegie Hall”

“Death and the Powers doesn’t point the way to a new era of opera. It’s there. Now.” – Philadelphia Inquirer

“Schoenberg in Hollywood works splendidly as theater, and as an opera whose score allows its clever libretto to work its magic, seems likely to follow Machover’s previous successes.” – Keith Powers, Classical Voice North America

“…Machover, voluble and friendly in person, confounds expectations. Valis, based on a science-fiction novel by Philip K. Dick and dubbed “the first opera of the twenty-first century,” now sounds anything but scary, and his last three operas, Resurrection, Skellig and Death and the Powers, have rare emotional depth. Machover, now a fully mature composer, is unafraid of harnessing the old-fashioned powers of opera, unafraid of sentimentality, unafraid of C major.” — Philip Kennicott in Opera News, October 2013

“Machover is a remarkable composer.  [His] technological inventions in giving to sounds, through electronics, new sonorities, new eloquence, have been widely and amply acclaimed.  But I’d like to stress what a good opera composer he is, bringing the ‘traditional’, necessary skills to a far from traditional work. Machover has a command of expressive vocal gesture.  He sets words sensitively, with a feeling for the natural weight, stress and length of syllables rare today.  Voices and instrumental/electronic sound are well balanced.  The final duet is a moving modern addition to the great line of father-daughter exchanges: Boccanegra-Amelia, Rigoletto-Gilda, even Wotan- Brünnhilde.  This was a grand, rich, deeply serious new opera, presented by a team with manifold coherent accomplishments.” — Andrew Porter in Opera Magazine January 2011

GENERAL FEATURES

• Massaging Brains While Evoking Paintings and Nature – The Boston Musical Intelligencer
• Reimagining the Opera of the Future – Arts at MIT
• Chamber Music America – AI: What Does It Mean? And How Is It Making These Decisions?
• Washington Post – AI is taking music lessons. They’re not going great.
• Musical America – Composer of the Year, Tod Machover
• NPR – Toward New Musics: What The Future Holds For Sound Creativity
• HP Enterprise- From Beethoven to the Beatles: Composer Tod Machover on enhancing the power of music through tech
• Boston Globe – Boulez’s shocker from midcentury, and the waves it made
• U.S. News & World Report – Crowdsourcing Meets Music for Symphonies of the Future
• Boston Globe – BMOP, Machover honored by Musical America
• Boosey & Hawkes –On the Horizon: Tod Machover’s City Symphonies
  (June 2015)Lake Champlain Weekly – Where Barriers End
• La Presse Canada – Tod Machover: composer, inventer, enseigner
• The Flute View – Interview with Tod Machover: A composer’s process. By Barbara Siesel
• FOX TV – Xploration Earth 2050: The Future of Entertainment
• Discover – What’s Next for the Godfather of ‘Guitar Hero’?
• WNYC – Space is the Place
• PBS NewsHour (VIDEO) Singing robots reflect tech’s humanity in opera of the future
• NPR Music (AUDIO) ‘The Cunning Little Vixen’ Pokes Her Head Into An Animated Forest
• Opera News – Man and Machine
• New York Times – Duet for Composition and Software
• New York Times – MIT’s Opera of the Future (Photo Essay)
• Fanfare Magazine – Hypercollaborations: An Interview with Tod Machover
• Wired UK – Tod Machover invents instruments, robot operas –- oh, and Guitar Hero
• WBUR – Visionaries: “A Musical Innovator”
• Los Angeles Times Musical therapy is making breakthroughs
• Cannes Lions Seminar on Technology and Creativity (video)
• Prague Quadrennial Magazine – A Composer at the Edge of Sound
• The Guardian (UK) – The MIT factor: celebrating 150 years of maverick genius
• BBC’s Music Matters in Boston – April 23, 2011
• David Harrington of Kronos Quartet speaks about Chomsky-Machover project
• Variety: Smart instruments: Musician’s tools play along with you
• Tod Machover on NPR’s Morning Edition
• TEDx Aldeburgh – a rough guide
• Classical Music Magazine on Aldeburgh project
• Tod’s work at the MIT Media Lab was featured in China’s Lifeweek Magazine
• New York Times Opinionator – On Future Performance
• NewMusicBox – Tod Machover: Technology and the Future of New Music
• From Beethoven to the Beatles: Composer Tod Machover on enhancing the power of music through tech
• New York Times – Nervous Dirge: The Best Classical Music Moments of the Week

VALIS REVIVAL (2023)

• An AI opera from 1987 reboots for a new generation, by A.Z. Madonna in The Boston Globe (pdf)
• Machover’s VALIS This Way Comes, interview with Lee Eisenman and Anne Azema in The Boston Musical Intelligencer
• Opera Review: Tod Machover’s VALIS — Futuristic Sturm und Drang, by Aaron Keebaugh in The Arts Fuse

OVERSTORY OVERTURE

• Translating the Music of Trees Into the Sounds of Opera by Thomas May in The New York Times (download PDF)
• Tod Machover, Joyce DiDonato Listen to the Trees in New Opera, by David Patrick Stearns for Musical America (pdf).
• New Opera As Sapling: Glimpse At Machover’s Lyric Portrait Of Trees, by Anne E. Johnson for Classical Voice North America.
• ‘Overstory Overture’ – Tod Machover’s Upcoming Music Magic at Lincoln Center by Lois Silverstein in OperaWire
• Q&A: Tod Machover on “Overstory Overture,” his new operatic work by Peter Dizikes, MIT News
• Sejong Soloists offers polished playing, intriguing work in progress, by George Grelia in New York Classica Review

REVIEWS OF “SCHOENBERG IN HOLLYWOOD”

• ‘Schoenberg in Hollywood’ Review: Grandiose Fantasy by Heidi Waleson in The Wall Street Journal
• Machover’s Schoenberg in Hollywood Offers Hummable Tunes in 12 Tones by Lloyd Shwartz in Musical America
• Schoenberg Moves To Tinseltown In Clever New Opera by Keith Powers in Classical Voice North America
• Machover Imagines Beautiful Mountain by Jonas Kublickas in The Boston Music Intelligencer
• Hooray for Operatic Immersion by Carl Straussner in The Boston Music Intelligencer
• Musical worlds collide with BLO’s world premiere of “Schoenberg in Hollywood” by Aaron Keebaugh in Boston Classical Review
• ‘Schoenberg in Hollywood’ is a composer biography like no other by Zoë Madonna in The Boston Globe
• Tod Machover’s Schoenberg in Hollywood, by the Boston Lyric Opera by Charles Warren in New York Arts
• Schoenberg in Hollywood by Boston Lyric Opera by Doug Hall in Berkshire Fine Arts
• A soundtrack for Schoenberg by George Loomis in The New Criterion
• Schoenberg in Hollywood by Angelo Mao in Opera News
• BLO’s “Schoenberg in Hollywood”: Toot, Whistle, Plunk, Boom? by Jack Craib in South Shore Critic
• Legacy And Genius In Machover’s New Opera “Schoenberg In Hollywood” by Megan McCormick in The Theater Times
  Arnold Schoenberg brings his music to Hollywood by Ivy Li in The Tech

MEDIA COVERAGE OF “SCHOENBERG IN HOLLYWOOD”

• From Robots To Schoenberg: MIT Opera Of The Future Composer Tod Machover Evolves Tradition With Tech by Andrea Shea in NPR’s The ARTery
• Schoenberg at the movies by Jeremy Eichler in The Boston Globe
• Life of the composer Arnold Schoenberg inspires Tod Machover’s latest opera
• ‘Schoenberg in Hollywood’ by Jody Feinberg in The Patriot Ledger
• Animal-Shaped Vessels and Composer Tod Machover with Jared Bowen at WGBH
• From Beethoven to the Beatles: Composer Tod Machover on enhancing the power of music through tech by Preston Gralla Hewlett Packard Enterprise
• Karole Armitage Talks ‘Schoenberg in Hollywood’ Opera, Her Days as a Punk Ballerina, and the Lack of Female Choreographers by Wendy Taucher in Exhale Lifestyle
• ‘Schoenberg in Hollywood’ reveals a composer’s quest to expose the Holocaust by Matt Robinson in Jewish Journal
• Professor Tod Machover talks Schoenberg, composing for opera, and the power of words by Ivy Li in The Tech
• BLO – “The Punk Ballerina” Meets Arnold Schoenberg: Karole Armitage Directs Schoenberg in Hollywood
• BLO – Schoenberg in…Hollywood?

MEDIA COVERAGE OF “PHILADELPHIA VOICES”

• BBC World Service – Tod Machover – Composer and Inventor
• NPR – Composer Tod Machover Discusses How He Created ‘Philadelphia Voices’
• New York Times – How a Philly Cheesesteak Goes From the Grill to Carnegie Hall
• Bachtrack – Philadelphia: America’s great experiment brought to life in Machover première
• Phindie – The Philadelphia Orchestra pulls in an audience with a surprisingly good Philadelphia Voices
• Seen and Heard International – A Machover Premiere Celebrates the City of Brotherly Love
• Classical Source – Philadelphia Orchestra/Yannick Nézet-Séguin at Carnegie Hall – Leonard Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms, Tod Machover’s Philadelphia Voices, and Pictures at an Exhibition
• Philadelphia Inquirer – Philadelphia Orchestra’s new oratorio wit’ cheesesteaks was great fun at its Philly premiere
• New York Times – Review: Jonas Kaufmann Takes a Big Step Toward ‘Tristan’
• Philadelphia Inquirer – Mummers and sizzling Philly cheesesteaks get their Philadelphia Orchestra moment
• AP – Symphony with ‘cheesesteak interlude’ captures city’s sizzle
• WRTI – A Fascinating New Musical Portait of Philadelphia Premieres This Week
• Tod Machover Composes And Curates A Symphony Of PHILADELPHIA VOICES
• Voices from all over Philly will fuel a Philadelphia Orchestra performance
• CBS Philly – Sounds Of The City Come Together For Unique Philadelphia Orchestra Symphony
• Philly Voice – Composer samples sounds of Pat’s Steaks, Eagles victory to create ‘Philadelphia Voices’
• Metro – The sounds of Philadelphia have been turned into a symphony

MEDIA COVERAGE OF “SYMPHONY IN D” (DETROIT)

• BBC – Crowd-sourcing a Symphony for Detroit
• Detroit Free Press – Sounds of Detroit echo in verse
• Hyperallergic – Composing the Sounds of Detroit into a Symphony (review)
• New York Times – Detroit Symphony Tackles an Adventurous Premiere
• New York Times – Composer Aims to Capture the Spirit of Detroit
• Associated Press – MIT professor creates symphony featuring sounds of Detroit
• Detroit Free Press – DSO to premiere a sonic portrait of Detroit
• Detroit Free Press – ‘Detours’ podcast: Glenn Barr exhibit, ‘Symphony in D’
• Michigan Daily – Tod Machover taps into spirit of Detroit in ‘Symphony in D’
• WNYC – A Symphony For The Motor City
• ‘Symphony in D’ features sounds of Detroit
• Detroit Free Press – Composer seeks sounds of Detroit for new piece for DSO
• The Detroit News – Detroit to get its own musical portrait
• WDIV (NBC News affiliate (VIDEO) – DSO announces the ‘Symphony in D’
• Detroit Performs – With your help, Machover’s new ‘Symphony in D’ will sound like Detroit
• Classicalite – Musical Makeover: Tod Machover and Detroit Symphony Orchestra Turn City into ‘Symphony in D’ Musical Portrait
• WDET Interview with Tod Machover
• WKAR: Symphony in D” to feature the sounds of the Motor City
• DAC News – Symphony celebrates Motor City
• Model D – Tod Machover to capture sounds of the city with ‘Symphony in D’ project
• Nonprofit Quarterly – DSO’s “Symphony in D”: A Participatory Experiment to Watch

MEDIA COVERAGE OF “A SYMPHONY FOR LUCERNE”

• New York Times: Tod Machover Named Composer in Residence for Lucerne Festival
• WQXR Listen: World Premiere of Tod Machover’s ‘Symphony for Lucerne’
• Deutsche Welle (Video) – 5 Folge 4 Lucerne Festival
• Radio Pilatus – TOD MACHOVER: DIESER MANN MACHT DIE SINFONIE FÜR LUZERN
• MIT News – The sound of (new) music: MIT composer Tod Machover debuts multiple new works at prestigious Lucerne Festival.
• Tages Anzeiger – Where even a cow moos aesthetically

MEDIA COVERAGE OF VOCAL VIBRATIONS

• Boston Globe – MIT exhibits let the body hum in a vocal meditation
• The Tufts Daily – Le Laboratoire creates interactive space for groundbreaking innovation in art, science
• The Improper Bostonian – Tod Machover – Sound and Vision
• The Huntington News – Art installation uses sound as self-reflection
• SoonSoonSoon – THE WORLD OF TOMORROW BY TOD MACHOVER
• Vocal Vibrations: Unique new vocal experiment featuring Bowers & Wilkins
• WGBH Open Studio – IRANIAN ARTIST PARVIS TANAVOLI & COMPOSER/INVENTOR/EDUCATOR TOD MACHOVER

MEDIA COVERAGE OF “DEATH AND THE POWERS” GLOBAL SIMULCAST

• LOFT: DALLAS OPERA’s SIMULCAST – Tod Machover’s Death and the Powers
• Opera News: A big work with big ideas 
• Opera: Opera on screen
• Brain and Mind – Futuristic Opera “Death and the Powers” Asks Life’s Oldest Questions, with New Dimensions

MEDIA COVERAGE OF PERTH SYMPHONY

• Limelight – Concert review: Between the Desert and the Deep Blue Sea (WASO)
• Cut|Common: Live Review: Between the Desert and the Deep Blue Sea
• Perth Culture: Review – Between the Desert and the Deep Blue Sea
• Western Australian: Composer distils unanswered questions:
• The Australian Tod Machover’s symphony for Perth pits man versus machine
• The Guardian – Flies, crows and crashing waves: the sounds that definePerth
• Limelight – Perth’s getting a Symphony for a City
• The Western Australian – High-tech symphony finale for artsfest

MEDIA COVERAGE OF FESTIVAL CITY

• The Herald – EIF Review; Royal Scottish National Orchestra
• The Scotsman – Music review: RSNO: City Noir
• The Edinburgh Guide – EIF 2013: City Noir (Royal Scottish National Orchestra) Review
• The Guardian – RSNO/Oundjian – review
• Bachtrack – Edinburgh International Festival: City Noir with the RSNO, Peter Oundjian and Pinchas Zukerman
• BBC – Outriders (BBC5 podcast) – Festival City
• BBC – Edinburgh’s crowdsourced symphony made with MIT apps
• BBC- The Culture Studio with Janice Forsyth
• BBC – Classics Unwrapped
• Wired UK – Festival City: Tod Machover on crowdsourcing music with MIT apps for EIF
• The Scotsman – Festival preview: Tod Machover’s Festival City
• MIT Media Lab – Repertoire Remix: Q&A with Tod Machover and Tae Kim
• BBC Radio 5 – Outriders Interview (June 18, 2013)
• The Scotsman – Sounds of Edinburgh to be used in festival symphony
• Boston Business Journal – A score for the world’s biggest music fest? There’s an app for that
• West End Broadway World – 2013 Edinburgh International Festival Launches New ‘Cauldron’ App
• Thoroughly Good Blog – Submit material for Tod Machover’s Edinburgh 2013 commission Festival City
• The Guardian – Join us for an interactive improvisation session for Tod Machover’s Festival City project
• WOW 24/7 – 13 stand-out shows at the Edinburgh International Festival
• WOW 24/7 – Festival preview: Tod Machover’s Festival City
• Knight Arts – Tod Machover: Creating a symphony in concert with the community
• The Power Player Mag – USA centre stage in Edinburgh International Festival’s global celebration of culture
• European Festivals Association – Sounds of your memory: co-creation of a musical portrait of Edinburgh
• The Scotsman – Sounds of Edinburgh to be used in festival symphony
• Festival Bytes – Sounds of your memory: co-creation of a musical portrait of Edinburgh
• Sync Tank – Tod Machover: “A model for us to rethink what creativity is”

MEDIA COVERAGE OF A TORONTO SYMPHONY

• BBC News – Tod Machover: composer’s social media symphony for Toronto (VIDEO)
• CBC – A Toronto Symphony (AUDIO)
• NPR – Scott Simon – Sounds Of Toronto’s Streets Liven Symphony (AUDIO)
• Global News – Full Story – An Urban Symphony (VIDEO)
• The Guardian – Tod Machover: how to crowdsource a symphony
• Toronto Life – The Argument: Musical visionary Tod Machover crowd-sourced a symphony for Toronto—now other cities want one too
• International Arts Manager – Electric dreams: Composer and inventor Tod Machover on music and participatory practice
• LOFT – A Toronto Symphony: Tod Machover’s participatory orchestral opera
• Symphony – Going Public (on crowdsourced symphonies) Spring 2013 issue
• Discovery Channel – Daily Planet features “A Toronto Symphony” (VIDEO, starting at 3:00)
• Global News – The Crowd Sourced Symphony: An Aural Tribute to Toronto
• Musical Toronto – News flash: CN Tower to make Toronto Symphony Orchestra début on Saturday night
• Toronto NOW – Tod Machover: What does Toronto sound like anyway?
• Toronto Star – Toronto gets the symphony treatment
• Canadian Jewish News – New symphony features the sounds of Toronto
• Musical Toronto – A Toronto Symphony composer Tod Machover keeps adding interaction weeks before premiere
• Boston Globe – Sounds of a city: A new template for collaboration in Toronto
• Toronto Life – Found Sounds
• Musical Toronto – Toronto school children become engaged composers in Toronto Symphony experiment
• Smart Planet – Q&A: Tod Machover, composer and inventor
• CBC Music – Tod Machover’s music app lets you be part of A Toronto Symphony
• Wired UK – Watch Tod Machover’s full Wired 2012 talk about his Toronto symphony
• PBS MediaShift – How Tod Machover and the City of Toronto Are Creating a Symphony
• The Guardian – The orchestra as mass collaboration
• CBC – Help Tod Machover compose A Toronto Symphony
• CBC Metro Morning – Toronto’s Sound
• Torontoist – Tod Machover Crowdsources a Symphony
• Toronto Life – Guitar Hero brain Tod Machover calls on Torontonians to help compose a musical portrait of the city
• Toronto Standard – What Does Toronto Sound Like?
• Toronto Star – Composer Tod Machover invites Torontonians to create music for the TSO
• Toronto Globe and Mail – TSO to perform a Toronto-made symphony next year
• Toronto Star – Toronto to get its own symphony at the TSO

REVIEWS OF RECORDINGS

• Tod Machover, Death and the Powers, Soloists and the Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Gil Rose
• Quattro Mani Restructure Piano Duo Concept
• Quattro Mani at Weill Hall and on CD (Sequenza21)
• New Creations Festival – Jeux Deux
• Collected reviews of “…but not simpler…”
• Collected reviews of “Hyperstring Trilogy

REVIEWS OF DEATH AND THE POWERS

• Selected press quotes
• Chicago Opera Theater press quotes
• Opera Magazine – Death and the Powers, review by Andrew Porter
• Chicago Tribune – COT’s dazzling ‘robot opera’ poses provocative new questions
• Dallas Morning News — The Dallas Opera’s ‘Death and the Powers’ is stunning on Blu-ray
• D Magazine – Review: Dallas Opera’s Futuristic Death and the Powers Faces Life’s Oldest Questions
• Opera Pulse – Dallas Opera Opens Tod Machover’s “Death and the Powers”
• Dallas Morning News – Review: Dallas Opera goes sci-fi, high-tech with ‘Death and the Powers’
• New Music Box – KEEP DALLAS WIRED: THE DALLAS OPERA PLUGS INTO DEATH AND THE POWERS
• Theater Jones – One Singularity Sensation
• Classical Voice North America – High-Tech Death Is Brave New World Of Machover Opera
• The Dallas Observer – The Dallas Opera’s Death and the Powers Is Weird and Divisive and Just What Dallas Needs
• The New York Review of Science Fiction – Death and the Powers
• MAL Music – Death and the Powers
• A tale of two operas: ‘Vincent’ and ‘Death’
• Examiner – Concert Review: Chicago Opera Theater’s Death and the Powers is magnificent
• The Tech – OPERA REVIEW The dawn of the future dramatic art
• The Contrapuntist – Review: DEATH AND THE POWERS, THE ROBOTS’ OPERA by Tod Machover at Chicago Opera Theater
• Chicago Classical Review – COT’s “Death and the Powers” proves a dazzling, thought-provoking multimedia experience
• New City Stage – Review: Death and the Powers/Chicago Opera Theater
• Chicago Critic – Death and the Powers
• Chicago Sun-Times – “Robot opera less than meets the eye”
• Chicago Now – Review “Death and The Powers”: Life-Altering Experience
• Beyond Words – No Dearth of Power (Part 1), Part 2,  Part 3
• Media Tech Connection – High tech Chicago opera takes a unique futuristic approach
• Philadelphia Inquirer – Monsters & immortals – seriously
• Wall Street Journal – Full-Bodied Arias in a Postorganic World
• Financial Times – Death and the Powers, Cutler Majestic Theatre, Boston
• Boston Phoenix – Tod Machover’s Death and the Powers
• Cambridge Community TV – Death and the Powers: the Robots’ Opera
• Time Out Boston – Review: Death and the Powers: The Robots’ Opera
• Variety Reviews – Death and the Powers: The Robots’ Opera
• Boston Globe – Second Life: ‘Death and the Powers’ from ART
• Boston Herald –Machover’s ‘Death’ is to die for
• Cape Cod Times – ‘Robots Opera’ brought to life through lights, sound
• Opera News – Review of Death and the Powers
• Opéra Magazine (France) – Review of Death and the Powers (pdf)
• Musical America – “An Unlikely Confluence of Powers”
• International Herald Tribune – “Opera With Atmosphere of Brave New World”
• Le Monde –Des robots et des hommes dans le dernier opéra de Tod Machover
• Ventimiglia: Death & the Powers: Flash d’Immagini dal Futuro

FEATURE COVERAGE OF DEATH AND THE POWERS

• Los Angeles Times – Critic’s Pick: ‘Death and the Powers’ melds opera and apps at Hammer
• Broadway World – The Dallas Opera Presents DEATH AND THE POWERS, Now thru 2/16
• D Magazine – The Man Behind Robot Opera Death and the Powers
• Dallas Morning News – Dallas Opera enters sci-fi space with “Death and the Powers”
• Arts+Culture Texas – New Opera for a New Millennium
• Technology Review – Opera, Remixed: My UROP in the Opera of the Future lab
• BBC World Service – The Strand March 15, 2011
• Discovery Channel Canada – Daily Planet feature on Death and the Powers
• Chicago Tonight – WTTW – March 31, 2011
• Chicago Tribune –Cue the robots – opera for the digital era arrives at COT
• Chicago Classical Review – Machover’s “robot opera” to kick off Chicago Opera Theater’s season
• StyleBoston WCVB-TV Plugged In: Feature on Death and the Powers
• The Boston Musical Intelligencer – Machover, Touching with Sound
• The Boston Phoenix – Preview: Love and Robots in Death and the Powers: The Robots’ Opera
• Boston Globe –Powered up and programmed to perform: Chorus of robots in a starring role
• Variety – Opera of the future: Robotic and music combo gives audience something new
• NPR Science Friday – High-Tech Opera Features Robots as Stars
• The Atlantic – “Guitar Hero Goes to the Opera: How the video game’s godfather plans to democratize one of the oldest musical art forms”
• NPR On Point with Tom Ashbrook – “Robot Opera and Immortality”
• Christian Science Monitor – “A thoroughly modern opera: Robots enter a new frontier“
• New Vilna Review – “Music, Technology and Immortality: an Interview with Composer and MIT Professor, Tod Machover”
• The Economist video: Inventing the Opera of the Future
• The Economist – “A Technology maestro”
• PlumTV – “Masters of Innovation: Creativity Wired”
• New Scientist – Musical inventor: The robotic set of my opera emotes
• Buhnen Technische Rundschau – Death and the Powers: A Robot Opera (in German)
  • English translation
• New Vilna Review – “Pinsky and Machover Bring Shadow and Light to NCAC Event”
• Jewish Advocate – “A meeting of mavericks of poetry and music“
• l’Ordinateur individuel-SVM – “Tod Machover: Créateur d’Hyperinstruments“
• Revista Galileu (Brazil) – “Opéra Hero” (pdf)
• The Sunday Times (London) – “Opera gets a Machover”
• NPR – “Back Stage at A High-Tech Opera”
• WBUR – “Q&A: Opera Of The Future, Starring (What Else?) Robots!”
• MIT News – “Disembodied performance”
• Popular Science – MIT’s Opera of the Future Features Singing Walls and Dancing Robots
• Playboy – “2010 Honor Roll List”
• Bowers & Wilkins – “The future of surround sound”
• Big Think – A First in Theater: Robots Performing Opera
• Wired – “Orchestral manoeuvres with ‘Death and the Powers'”
• La Gazette de Monaco – Monaco et le MIT
• BU Today – “Robot, of Thee I Sing: Pinsky’s words help put technology in innovative opera.”
• BBC News – “Is music going back to its roots?“
• Nature – Interview with Tod Machover
• Boston Magazine – “Genius Composition: How professor Tod Machover and a group of MIT scientists are creating the future of music. “
• Smithsonian – “Tod Machover on Composing Music by Computer“
• Scienceline – Echoes from the Future of Opera
• NPR – Tod Machover’s New Opera

MEDIA RELEASES

• PRWeb – Robotic Opera Wrestles with Love and Death
• PRWeb – “New Robot Opera Explodes Boundaries”
• Promotional Trailer
• Kirshbaum Demler – Death and the Powers: The Latest Opera from Tod Machover
• Kirshbaum Demler – TOD MACHOVER BRINGS COMMUNITIES TOGETHER WITH MUSIC & TECHNOLOGY

MORE COVERAGE OF DEATH AND THE POWERS

• Lee Cullum – The Dallas Opera is Back!
• Chicago Tribune – Adventurous times for classical music lover
• Chicago Classical Review – The Top 10 Performances of 2011
• high SCORE New Music Center – The medium is the message in Tod Machover’s opera ‘Death and the Powers
• Eternal Arigato, Mr. Roboto
• Medill Reports – ‘Death and the Powers’ takes operatic look at immortality
• Examiner – ‘Operabots’ spice up MIT’s ‘Death and the Powers’ opera
• Blast – Stage Review: “Death and the Powers: The Robots’ Opera” from the A.R.T.
• Metro – ‘Death and the Powers’: Farewell to conventional theater
• PC World – MIT Robots Take Stage In New Opera
• City’s Best Boston – ‘Death and the Powers’: A Robot Opera By Tod Machover
• Robot Living – Death And The Powers: The Robots’ Opera
• Wicked Local – Waltham resident’s opera has tech in tune
• Chicago Journal – “Musical Machinery: Will machines get smarter than people? New opera sings the question”
• Stuff at Night – “Robo Roles”
• Musical America Yearly Directory
• New Vilna Review – An Interview with Robert Pinsky
• Duran Audio – Death and the Powers Monaco: MIT teams up with AXYS for a Royal Premiere in Monaco
• Animation World Network – A Night at the High-Tech Opera
• Bowers & Wilkins – Tod Machover’s robotic opera premieres in Monte Carlo
• Boosey & Hawkes – Machover: Death and the Powers premiere in Monte Carlo
• Vimeo – iPad Opera live mix “Death and the Powers”
• David V. Lu’s blog – Operabots are Go: Death and the Powers
• Post Position/Nick Monfort – Death and the Powers arrives
• TED Blog – Tod Machover talks about his new robotic opera, Death and the Powers
• GearLog – The Singularity. In Opera Form. With Robots.
• Cool-O-Rama –Death and the Powers World Premiere
• Slice of MIT – Death and the Powers: The Future of Music
• Monaco City Out – Death and the Powers to premiere in Monte Carlo
• Consulate General of Monaco – Monaco’s Fall Energy Summit with M.I.T. to Focus on the Future
• World Science Festival – Death and the Powers is here
• Gizmodo – Robot Opera Is Less Madame Butterfly, More “Oops I Dropped a Butterfly Screw”
• Playbill – Diane Paulus and Karole Armitage Collaborating on Death and the Powers Opera
• Brian Dickie’s blog: More about Death and the Powers
• Fast Company – 5 High-Tech Operas that Radically Transform the Stage
• Chicago Tribune –Opera Theater puts innovation on calendar
• A.R.T. – Death and the Powers Workshop
• Aspen Institute (video) – Transforming Music: Tod Machover
• Networked Music –Hyperinstruments, Sonitronics, and Musical Propulsion

TWITTER BUZZ!

• SallaSavolainen:  anyone in america, go see an opera called “Death and the Powers” !!! i was in the world premiere in monaco. just fyi. GO ! 🙂
• carolbeggy: Chicago Opera Theater’s Brian Dickie is still beaming from Death And the Powers premiere in Monaco. See you in March:
• cacestlamusique:  DEATH and the POWERS in Monte Carlo, Monaco: An outstanding and robotic world premiere!

SELECTED ARTICLES ABOUT TOY SYMPHONY

• New York Times – ARTS ONLINE; From a Few Colored Lines Come the Sounds of Music
• Boston Phoenix – Child’s Play
• WQXR – Top Five Music Pieces for Toys

REVIEWS OF “HYPERSTRING TRILOGY”

• Fanfare – Machover’s Hyperstring Trilogy
• Neue Luzerner Zeitung – Ein menschlicher Cyborg lädt zur Party

ARTICLES AND REVIEWS OF “RESURRECTION”

• New York Times – OPERA REVIEW; Tolstoy Nobleman, Trying to Do the Right Thing

ARTICLES AND REVIEWS OF “THE BRAIN OPERA”

ARTICLES AND REVIEWS OF “VALIS”

• • Philip K. Dick Fan Site – Interview with Tod Machover
  • Amazon – Review by Thomas May
  • Challenging Destiny – Review of VALIS