The themes and concerns of Death and the Powers seem even more relevant and resonant than when the opera premiered a decade ago.

Gramophone contributor Laurence Vittes spotlights Tod Machover’s “Death and the Powers,” an opera about robots and humans.

Tod Machover describes the premiere of his recent opera, Death and the Powers.

Check out a preview of Professor Tod Machover’s latest opera, Death and the Powers, which will premiere in Monaco in September and then tou…