Paging H. G. Wells! Eric Moe and Rob Handel premiere “a light-hearted science-fiction opera about robot-loving artists and art-loving robots; about obsession and distraction, fame and obscurity, human and machine, change and end, the last days of humankind.” A TED Talk at the top of the show poses a question. In the past, folks like Bach and Van Gogh died, yet their work lived on. What, centuries from now, will become of the work being done today? Stepping into the future, artists of our time are delighted to find their work installed at the Guggenheim. Too bad the human race has died out, leaving no one to enjoy the stuff but robots. —Matthew Gurewitsch