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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.
Ted Hearne Constantine Koukias Hackett Yung Levy Egon Wellesz Nola
Prayer Bells Music Director Ted Hearne Music Composer Constantine Koukias Hebrew Cantor Peretta Angerek Greek Cantor Asterios Zouriakas Latin Cantor Ben LeCaire Bell makers Neil McLachlan & Anton Hasell Male Chorus Gary Alexander Jack Cotterell Jonah Gaster Robert Hackett Eric Miranda Isaiah Robinson Brad Whaley Christopher Yung Sound Designer Greg Gurr Hebrew Translation Yoram Levy A choral work for 3 solo cantors: Hebrew, Greek and Latin; 8 male voices with a quarter-tone set of specially crafted Hand Bells and digital delay Prayer Bells is divided into 21 prayers, some of which are performed by bells alone. The work is based on heterophony, as opposed to polyphony or harmony. This means that the melody or chant is used to create a harmonic accompaniment and structure to the chant. All of the bells used in the work were specially commissioned and cast as the Federation Bells for the Centenary of Federation Festival, Melbourne Australia. The bells have proved a gorgeous and finely tuned instrument to use. They also represent unity in the work, bridging the cultural and historical boundaries of these three divergent but highly related chant traditions. The majority of the Hebrew chants come from early parts of the Book of Genesis of the Old Testament. Interestingly, the background of the Greek service of worship is to be found in Hebrew chant, especially from the musical theory and practice of Hellenised Judaism. The Old Testament had a conspicuous place in the thought and worship of the New Testament Christian Church; Old Testament quotations and allusions abound in the literature of the New Testament, and Jewish cantors were often used to teach early Christian communities chant and psalmody. In the words of the musicologist Egon Wellesz, Byzantine Hmynography 'is the poetical expression of Orthodox theology, translated through music to the sphere of religious devotion'. It is a highly sophisticated and powerful literary tradition that has extended over many centuries. The Latin text used in Prayer Bells does not come from the canon of the church but is rather the joyous poetic expression of two respected medieval scholars, Sedulius Scottus and Paulinus of Nola, from the ninth and fourth centuries respectively. In the dying embers of the Roman Empire, Paulinus was Governor of a province and consul before he was thirty. Pupil of Ausonius he broke the old man's heart when he was sent to Spain. He was finally established as parish priest of St Felix in Nola where he continued to write poetry and lyrics in celebration of the Church. In addition to the orthodox tradition, there is also a presentation of Greek Gnosticism, an esoteric spiritual movement that developed from early Christianity, and grew in parallel to the conventional religions. The Gnostics explained the world by very different creation myths and by reference to powers (considered magical and alchemical by traditionalists) very much at odds with traditional Christian ideology.
Opera Australia Konstantin Koukias Michael Lampard Grice Hopkins Decker Kon 2010
Copyright 2010 IHOS Opera Australia. Artistic Director Konstantin Koukias Composer Michael Sydney Jones Librettist Marianne Fisher Director Juha Vanhakartano Musical Director Michael Lampard Mezzo Soprano Soloist Stephanie Abercrombie Solo Bass Clarinet Derek Grice Sound Design Greg Gurr Art Director Lucia Rossi Costume Design Ineka Randazzo Lighting Design Reubin Hopkins Kitchen Table Rondo (KTR) is an opera about various aspects of food in our lives. There is as much music on the double decker buses and limos in transit between the mystery venues as there is in each of the three acts. This will evoke very happy memories for many, performed for several balmy nights under a Hobart full moon in March 2010! :-) Many thanks to Kon Koukias, Marianne Fisher, Michael Lampard and Juha Vanhakartano, in particular, for all those stimulating idea sharing sessions! Act Two (here) focuses on food anxiety issues (such as anorexia). Stephanie Abercrombie gives a wonderful pre-recorded and multi tracked account of the libretto, to give an other worldly feel - an inspired initiative from music director, Michael Lampard.
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