AppleInsider Staff
A U.S. opera company in Santa Fe on Wednesday announced plans for an upcoming production centering on Steve Jobs, adding to a growing number of books, movies and documentaries focusing on the life and times of the late Apple cofounder.
Commissioned by the Santa Fe Opera, "The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs" by composer Mason Bates and librettist Mark Campbell will put a dramatic spin on what has become well-trod ground since Jobs' passing, reports The Los Angeles Times.
With a life chock full of personal and public turmoil, success, loss, love and discovery, Jobs' story seems like a perfect fit for the opera house. The production will incorporate important characters from the tech guru's inner circle, including his adoptive father Paul and his wife Laurene Powell Jobs, while digging into sensitive subjects like his relationship with former girlfriend and mother to his first child Chrisann Brennan.
According to the report, the upcoming Jobs opera will stage a workshop in San Francisco next month in collaboration with Cal Performances at UC Berkeley. Director Kevin Newbury is in charge of the production, which will be conducted by Minnesota Opera music director Michael Christie.
Jobs' untimely death in 2011 generated a crush of press, while his storied life inspired multiple biographies, magazine specials, documentaries and big-screen adaptations. A hotly anticipated big-budget movie based on Walter Isaacson's official biography, and penned by Oscar-winning screenwriter Aaron Sorkin, is set for release in October. The film has been selected as the "Centerpiece" of this year's New York Film Festival.
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So fucking tired of milking Jobs' death, in such extreme fashion, so soon after his passing. What's worse, those behind most of this garbage clearly did not even have a shred of insight or understanding as to the real Jobs and his personality and motivations- or if they did, they decided to go with character assassination, easily advertisable trash instead.
Maybe Scott Forstall can turn this into a Broadway Musical: "Jobs! The Musical." /s
An opera? What could they possibly find after that? A boys band with his name?
Hahahahahaha!
Having read just about everything written about Jobs and Apple, I can see, and have seen, how those stories could make for a great movie. Heck, the early days of Apple could even be a MadMen-like TV series.
But I don't see an opera. I understand they did Nixon in China which was successful, but honestly what is there for Jobs and Sculley to croon about? I guess Gates and Jobs could perform a dramatic Aria called "You Stole My Operating System".
This is just a bad idea.