The creators then workshopped the score in the Centre for Performance Studies at the University of Sydney by means of a grant from the Australia Council for the Arts and private sponsorship in 1999 , and two years later scene four of the completed score was given a concert performance in the Sydney Opera House in September 2001 , conducted by the noted Australian composer Richard Mills . In an odd twist of fate , this scene ( in which the bomber crashes ) , was given its first orchestral rehearsal on the morning of 9/11 . After further work on the score , the opera was scheduled for its world premiere in 2004
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September 11 attacks
Madeline Lee