Death and the Powers

I went to see Tod Machover from the MIT Media Lab speak at ITP yesterday. He talked about the opera that he is currently working on called Death and the Powers. The whole thing looks so incredibly detailed and futuristic that it might be worth the trip to Monte Carlo in November of next year to see the premiere (although it says that they are taking it worldwide afterwards). The libretto is by poet laureate Robert Pinsky and more info on this can be found at the Media Lab site http://www.media.mit.edu/hyperins/projects/deathandthepowers/.