HSH Prince Albert and Professor Tod Machover meet – via iPad

This fall in the Principality of Monaco, a series of high-level events and activities organized by the Monaco-based FUTURUM Association in collaboration with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Energy Initiative, will focus on developing the next generation of leaders in energy.

As a follow up to two recent visits by HSH Prince Albert of Monaco to MIT to address environmental issues and a partnership for energy education, the collaboration from September 23 to 26, between several Monaco entities – including the Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation – will include a major energy summit to be held at Monaco’s 100 year-old Oceanographic Museum, featuring guest speakers from MIT and, during the Monaco Yacht Show, an important roundtable discussion on Tomorrow’s Yachts in Clean Seas.

The highlight of these events will be the world premiere, on September 24, at the Monte-Carlo Opera House of Death and the Powers A Robots’ Opera, a groundbreaking operatic and technological experience composed and produced by acclaimed American composer and MIT Professor Tod Machover. This exciting new work – developed at the MIT’s Media Lab with generous sponsorship provided by FUTURUM – uses specially designed new technology including a chorus of robots, a musical chandelier, and a set that “comes alive,” to explore what we leave behind for the world and our loved ones, as told through an eccentric patriarch, Simon Powers, and his family and friends (also visit http://operaofthefuture.wordpress.com/).

For full details and program please download the Futurum Press Kit.