From Tod Machover's Facebook page: Perhaps the most perfect public monument I have ever seen, far more impressive and indelible in person - because of the site, subtleties and significance - than in iconography. It was Eero Saarinen's first independent commission; he had worked in tandem with his father before that, and he beat out his dad for this …
A radical new approach to live performance
Here's another excellent article about Death and the Powers from Variety. This one sheds light on how composer Tod Machover and production designer Alex McDowell thought about rendering the character of Simon Powers through the elements of the stage design and the development of "Disembodied Performance" technology. "Machover sees applications for this technology in large …
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Opera of the Future 