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Media coverage of Death and the Powers in Chicago
Death and the Powers is gearing up for its run with the Chicago Opera Theater, and creative director and composer Tod Machover is running around town for a non-stop series of interviews. COT has posted press blurbs from the Boston run. We're doing our best to keep up! We'll be collecting this week's media coverage …
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Photo Gallery from Cutler Majestic
We thought you'd enjoy these gorgeous photos taken during rehearsals in Boston for Death and the Powers by Matt Checkowski... Chandelier and speakers at Cutler Majestic Robots, chandelier and walls Climbing the walls during rehearsal Memory Download Operabots in rehearsal
“Culture Shock” from Clef Notes Journal
Clef Notes Chicagoland Journal of the Arts offers an informative, elegantly written article about the upcoming Chicago Opera Theater run of Death and the Powers. CNCJA serves as Chicago's premier resource for arts and culture coverage with feature stories on music, art, theater and dance. Click on the image below for a larger-sized version.
Getting psyched for Chicago!
The Death and the Powers team is excited about bringing the show to Chicago's beautiful Harris Theater, to kick off the Chicago Opera Theater's season. The operabots want to visit the top of the Willis Tower - don't know if they'll be allowed on the elevators, though. Aww, maybe next time... We're getting some lovely …
Opening Week Round-up
Finally, a moment to catch our breath while the entire stage set of Death and the Powers is being trucked to Chicago. Fingers and toes crossed that nothing breaks along the way, as there's barely enough time to get everything set up and running smoothly for the Midwest premiere on Saturday, April 2! We compiled …
A Rocker Reacts to Death and the Powers
We caught up with Charlie Christos, a singer-songwriter who performs in the on-stage band for Prometheus Bound. This brand-new incarnation of Aeschylus's ancient tragedy recast as a rock show is currently playing at the American Repertory Theater's Club Oberon in Cambridge. It was directed by Death and the Powers' Diane Paulus, with a fresh, lean …
Opening Week Press on Death and the Powers
We've been inundated by press and reviews this week! It's hard to keep up, so we've collected those from the past couple of days here. Death and the Powers has one more Boston performance this Friday night (March 25) before moving on to Chicago for a one-week run (April 2-10). - Updated March 24, 2011 …
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Boston Globe Review – Discuss!
The Boston Globe's review of Death and the Powers should generate some conversation! Critic Jeremy Eichler offered high praise for most aspects of the production: "Much of Machover’s music, his soaring vocal writing, and especially some of his sculpted electronic soundscapes, are highly imaginative and quite compelling. Robert Pinsky’s libretto is often deft, and the …
TEDx Video of Spheres and Splinters
Bowers & Wilkins put up this post that gives you a chance to hear some of the music from Tod Machover's most recent work, "Spheres and Splinters", debuted in Aldeburgh and London last November. The video is a tad confusing because it mixes in footage from other performers and composers at TEDx Aldeburgh, but it …
Opera of the Future 