Our first look at the Steve Jobs opera is here
July 20, 2017 | Uncategorized
The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs, an original opera about the Apple co-founder, opens at the Santa Fe Opera this week. The Ringer has a great interview with its creative team out today, and it includes two images of the show.
The first (above), shows Garrett Soronson as Steve Wozniak and Edward Parks as Steve Jobs, presumably in the famous Apple I garage office / lab. The second shows Parks’ Jobs presenting the original iPhone in 2007.
Photo by Ken Howard / Santa Fe Opera via The Ringer
The show was commissioned by the Santa Fe Opera back in summer 2015, with music by Mason Bates and a libretto by Mark Campbell. Bates is a jack-of-all-trades, who moonlights as an electronic DJ and has composed lauded symphonies,…
