Sunday, February 16, 2014

Without My Death Who Will I Be? Live Forever?

Philadelphia Inquirer, Sunday, February 15, 2014, Arts&Entertainment, Front Page (H1)

Excerpt from article "There's an app for that . . . opera" by David Patrick Stearns, Inquirer Music Critic:


"Without my death, who will I be?"

That central existential question in the futuristic Tod Machover opera Death And The Powers threatens to reverse the usual leading-soprano dilemma:  Instead of preparing to die, she decides she should live, possibly forever, in an alternative realm.

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