Tesla – Lightning in His Hand

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.

[1] A warning was issued in the program to audience members who might be wearing "pace-makers, hearing aides, or any form of electric, magnetic, mechanical or metallic implant or prosthetic device".

The work, sponsored by the John Holland Group, was staged in a massive shed on Hobart's docks, where the Tesla coils put on a "spectacular display of electron sparks".

[2] Reviewing the production for the Melbourne Age, David Lander described it as "gorgeous image-based performance art with a fascinating, brittle score in which dilemmas are ignored in favour of sensuality".

[3] Tesla was featured on ABC Classic FM's New Music Australia program[4] and has been cited as far afield as Croatia, where it was noted in a tourist board tribute to the scientist[5] and Croatian Post's web page detailing a stamp to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the inventor's birth.