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Constantine Koukias Sparks Theremin Morse Antonín Dvořák Robyn Archer New World Symphony Ihos Music Theatre Opera West Australian Opera Australian Opera 1856 1943 2003
Tesla – Lightning in His Hand is a large-scale opera about Serbian American engineer and inventor Nikola Tesla (1856–1943), composed by Constantine Koukias, libretto by Marianne Fisher. WORLD PREMIERE SEASON 10 Days on the Island Festival 2003 Music & Direction: Constantine Koukias Conductor: Jean Louis Forestier Production director: Werner Ihlenfeld Production designer: Maria Kunda Artist in light: Hugh McSpedden The work, sponsored by the John Holland Group, was staged in a massive 160 meter long shed on Hobart's docks, where the Tesla coils put on a "spectacular display of electron sparks". The opera depicts Tesla's life as a series of reversals of fortunes. The two-hour work, sung in English, is in two parts and features a bass, a tenor, a bass-baritone, two sopranos, seven musicians (including a theremin player) and a large male choir. Also audible are clattering typewriters, pigeons (in later life Tesla was deeply affected by the death of a specific white pigeon), Morse code and fragments of Antonín Dvořák's New World Symphony. It also included two Tesla coil as props at its premiere. A warning was issued in the program to audience members who might be wearing "pace-makers, hearing aids, or any form of electric, magnetic, mechanical or metallic implant or prosthetic device". The full opera was produced in 2003 by IHOS Music Theatre and Opera. It was originally commissioned by the West Australian Opera and developed over three years through two staged "works in development". Creator and original Artistic Director of Tasmania's 10 Days on the Island Festival, Robyn Archer, commissioned the full opera to open the festival in 2003.
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