Tesla – Lightning in His Hand

Opera by Constantine Koukias
LibrettistMarianne Fisher
LanguageEnglish
Based onThe life of Nikola Tesla
Premiere
2003 (2003)
Hobart, Tasmania, Australia

Tesla – Lightning in His Hand is a large-scale opera about Serbian American engineer and inventor Nikola Tesla (1856–1943), composed by Constantine Koukias, a Tasmanian composer and opera director of Greek ancestry based in Amsterdam, where he is known by his Greek name of Konstantin Koukias, with libretto by Marianne Fisher.