Check out this footage from the world premiere performance of Death and the Powers. We get to hear audience reactions. Composer Tod Machover describes how everything came together flawlessly - a huge achievement in itself given the sheer complexity of all the technology, lighting and audio, as well as the demands of the opera itself. …
Interview with Tod Machover 1: The Idea Behind Death and the Powers
Tod and I got together during an extremely rare moment of down time to shoot this interview a few days ago, right inside the beautiful Opéra de Monte-Carlo, or Monte Carlo Opera House. We had so much to talk about that I decided to cut up his interview into a few installments, starting with how …
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Monaco: day 1
It's hard to believe so many things about being in Monaco. The fact that we're staying above the Fairmont Hairpin, the most famous loop of the Monaco Grand Prix, or that we get to live and work every day right along the glistening Mediterranean Sea, or that we're even here in Monaco at all - …
MIT News: Disembodied Performance
Tod Machover’s Death and the Powers, which features robots as performers, premieres this month. Is this the future of opera? There's a great feature story from the M.I.T. news office today about Death and the Powers. The story provides an excellent overview of the opera and goes into some depth on Tod Machover's vision to …
Lunch at the Consulate General of Monaco in New York
Yesterday, Tod was invited to lunch at the Consulate General of Monaco in New York as the guest of honor to speak to top members of the U.S. press about Death and the Powers. The event aimed to introduce the press to the Monaco premiere of the opera, as well as interest them in covering Powers …
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Opera of the Future 