Tod Machover's Death and the Powers
In her director’s note for the American premiere of Death and the Powers: The Robots’ Opera, which was composed by Tod Machover, with a libretto by poet Robert Pinsky, Diane Paulus, artistic director of the American Repertory Theater, wrote that this “work of music-theater . . .
Machover’s music, which combines a live orchestra (the splendid BMOP, conducted by Gil Rose) and ‘live’ electronic manipulation by a team from Machover’s Media Lab, is powerful.