In 2006, Violet Fire: A Multimedia Opera about Nikola Tesla premiered in Belgrade, Serbia for the Royal Celebration of Tesla’s 150th Birthday, and toured to New York for the BAM Next Wave Festival. Sarah Drury and I co-designed computer-driven projections for seven screens, working with a large team of people, including Charlie Hoey, Seth Erickson, and Luke Schantz.
To Nikola Tesla’s long list of accomplishments–physicist, engineer and inventor–we can now add opera star, at least in absentia… He was also a tragic figure, making his life the stuff of which great theater is made… the staging is just magnificent …very effective at conveying the mood. The music is terrific also. I recommend it highly to anyone, it’s just a beautiful production.
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