Steve Jobs (Photo : Reuters)
If Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has "Social Media" that chronicled his rise in the tech world, it would be an opera for Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. The musical will be titled "The (R)revolution of Steve Jobs."
Scheduled for a premiere in summer 2017, the opera's music will be by Mason Bates, who combines electronic sounds and traditional musical instruments. Mark Campbell handles the libretto, announced the Santa Fe Opera, the company commissioned to organize the musical presentation about Jobs, reports The New York Times.
A news release from Sante Fe says the opera would attempt "to capture the buzzing creativity realm of Silicon Valley with a kinetic electroacoustic score, lush vocal writing, a compelling nonlinear narrative and a production as innovative as the man himself."
The opera delves into the personal life of Job - who died of cancer in 2011 at the age of 56 - as well as his work as technical visionary behind products like the iPad, iPhone and iPod, family relationships and his practice of Zen Buddhism.
The opera, according to Santa Fe, "starts at a moment in Jobs' life when he must face his own mortality and circles back to the events and people in his past that shaped and inspired him: his father Paul, Zen Buddhism, his relationship with a woman whose child he initially disowned, his quick rise and fall as mogul, and - most importantly - his wife Laurene, who showed him the power of love and connection."
The first workshop for the opera will be in September in San Francisco. The director is Kevin Newbury, while the conductor is Michael Christie.
Besides the Santa Fe production, a biopic on Jobs will open in October 2014, starring Michael Fassbender. In 2014, the Opera de Lyon in France staged an operatic mash-up of Jobs and William Shakespeare's "Henry V," reports CNET.
So, would we expect to see next a stage play or TV series on Microsoft power couple Bill and Melinda Gates?
