British conductor and composer David Murphy, Shankar's collaborator on the project, finished the score using his detailed notes in 2017.
[5] Apart from the Western orchestra, the opera makes use of Indian instruments like tabla, sitar, shehnai, and mridangam.
[6][7] After Shankar's death in 2012, British conductor and composer David Murphy worked on the piece for five years.
He made use of extensive notations that Shankar had left behind, or vocally transmitted to Murphy while he was alive.
[8] The opera received its world premiere, in a collaboration with London Philharmonic Orchestra and BBC Singers and with funding by the Bagri Foundation,[9] in May 2017[10] In addition to the opera house, it was performed at the Southbank Centre's Royal Festival Hall, Curve theatre in Leicester, and Symphony Hall, Birmingham.