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“‘Private Practice’ star Amy Brenneman will return to her old theater stomping grounds in Cambridge next month when she performs her one-woman show, ‘Mouth Wide Open,’ at the American Repertory Theater.” – Boston Herald

“Having composed pieces for amplified cello and live electronics, Hyperpiano with orchestra and interactive graphics, computer sounds and animated texts, and other electronic wonders, Machover, most noted for his operatic productions, has written a new one, Death and the Powers, which has its American premiere next Friday, March 18” – Boston Musical Intelligencer

“Musician/robot enthusiast explains the human themes behind his futuristic opera.” – Time Out Boston

“In Tod Machover’s new opera, Death and the Powers, high technology meets high anxiety.” – Boston Phoenix

WGBH’s “Greater Boston” – A.R.T. Artistic Director Diane Paulus is about to have four of her directorial efforts running simultaneously—including Hair, The Donkey Show, Death and the Powers, and Prometheus Bound.

“There’s a decent argument that the true onstage stars of “Death’’ are made of wires, metal, and LED lights. These are the robots, including a dozen “Operabots,’’ as Machover calls them, with plastic, pizza box-shaped heads…” – The Boston Globe

“Ultimately it’s the relationships, the loss, the longing to connect that give this opera its emotional weight.” – The Atlantic

“In the new robot opera, ‘Death and the Powers,’ humans are history. So is flesh and blood- as ‘so over’ as the dinosaurs.” – wbur.org