Einstein was once asked how it felt to be the smartest man alive. Einstein’s reply was “I don’t know, you’ll have to ask Nikola Tesla.”

SoBe Arts, one of Miami’s leading arts & performance institutions, presents the world premiere of TESLA at Colony Theatre on Miami Beach. As the brainchild of composer Kievman and playwright Thomas Babe, the multidisciplinary opera/music-theater interprets the exceptional life, explorations and brilliant inventions of Nikola Tesla.

With climate change being a strong topic across the world today, Tesla’s story is an important one to tell. It’s the journey of a man’s realization that his invention would negatively affect the planet and his subsequent determination, at all costs, to find an eco-friendly solution before his untimely and lonely death.

The story is told through music, electrifying scenic design, mapped digital projections, and poetic storytelling via an exquisitely crafted libretto. The production will employ 9 principal vocalists, a 6 member choral ensemble and a 25 piece chamber orchestra.