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Posted on September 10, 2010September 17, 2010

Death and the Powers Synopsis (English)

Prologue Darkness.  Robots roll, lurch, and glide onstage as a group and then disassemble into separate units.  Four robots emerge from the pack and begin to speak.  In their dialogue, each robot tries to understand the meaning of the word “death,” a strange concept they encounter in a drama left behind by their human creators.  …

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Thursday, February 17, 6:30 pm GMT. Piercing Silence, recital with Charlie Lovell-Jones, violin, and Julian Chan, piano , at Angela Burgess Recital Hall, Royal Academy of Music, world premiere of Tod Machover's Resolve Remote.

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Death and the Powers (DVD blu-ray)

Superb blu-ray of the Dallas Opera's 2014 production. “Death and the Powers doesn’t point the way to a new era of opera. It’s there. Now.” - Philadelphia Inquirer

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In SACD, this CD provides an ideal opportunity to savor the richness, subtlety, variety and originality of Machover’s music.

 

 

“…manages to be at once technically rigorous, hard-charging, and hugely visceral.”
– The Boston Globe

 

 

“Mr. Machover’s new quartet, “… but not simpler …,” is a vigorous, exciting study in speediness, full of tremolando figures, racing lines and iridescent passages..”
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