Steve Jobs to be commemorated in opera

The Santa Fe Opera have commissioned the show for 2017, which now has the working title of “The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs”, according to the LA Times.

To honor that creative drive, thus, the Santa Fe Opera company will put on an opera dedicated to one of the most important people of the 21st century.

It will focus on both the personal and professional life of the mercurcial Apple founder, who died aged 56 in 2011 of pancreatic cancer and is now hero-worshipped by every Silicon Valley wannabe worth their semiconductor.

The life of Steve Jobs has forever been marked in history thanks to his work as co-creator of Apple, even prompting the creation of numerous film, book and off-Broadway ventures. For example, a Route 66 motor lodge in Albuquerque where Bill Gates and Paul Allen lived while launching Microsoft Corp.is being redeveloped into apartments as part of a neighborhood revival project. On his second tour, he introduced the iMac, the iPod and the iPhone. We are delighted to take this journey into the life and legacy of a distinctly American figure through the creative genius of Mason Bates and Mark Campbell.’.

My, how trendy. Sure, composers have made gorgeous operas out of material with less apparent dramatic potential than the life and technological innovation of Steve Jobs.

“Jobs’ story was attractive because it has a lot of possibilities for new sounds in an opera house”, Bates tells the Los Angeles Times.

“Each character will have (his or her) own music”, Mason Bates adds. “When they collide, that’s when it gets interesting”.

Campbell won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for the opera, “Silent Night”, while Bates created the highly acclaimed “Omnivorous Furniture”, which combines orchestral and electronic music.