Machover, Tod

Death and the Powers (2010)

Dauer: 90 Minuten
one-act opera

Libretto by Robert Pinsky and Randy Weiner

Besetzung
1(=picc).1(=corA).1(=bcl).0-1.1.1.1-perc: marimba/xyl/crot/3susp.cym/BD/2TD(med/low)/2gong(low F#)/low Ab)/maraca-2keyboard-strings(1.1.1.1.1)-Chandelier (robotic multi-stringed instrument), System (interactive and responsive set), Disembodied performance (real-time voice transformation for Simon, and interactive body-monitoring systems for Simon and Nicholas).
Abkürzungsverzeichnis (PDF).

Vertriebsgebiet
Dieses Werk ist erhältlich bei Boosey & Hawkes für Aufführungen in for the world.

Uraufführung
9/24/2010
Salle Garnier, Monte Carlo, Monaco
Diane Paulus, Regisseur
Dirigent: Gil Rose
Ensemble: American Repertory Theater

Pressestimmen
"This is a show unlike anything you have ever seen or heard before ... Death and the Powers is a must-see for anybody who cares about the exciting new techno-driven directions music theater is taking in the early 21st century."
— John von Rhein, Chicago Tribune

"Death and the Powers doesn't point the way to a new era of opera. It's there. Now."
— David Patrick Stearns, Philadelphia Inquirer

"Technological wonders go only so far towards achieving results in the opera house ... Yet the quality of Machover’s music, steeped in the language of Elliott Carter and Pierre Boulez, wedded to an imaginative libretto by Robert Pinsky, is what makes the opera worth seeing"
— George Loomis, Financial Times

Stimmung
dramatisch

Themen
zeitgenössisch