'The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs' Opera Set to Premiere in 2017

[MacRumors]

The Santa Fe Opera yesterday announced a new opera coming from composer Mason Bates and librettist Mark Campbell in 2017, set to detail the complicated personal and professional life of former Apple CEO Steve Jobs (via LA Times). Titled "The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs," the opera is planned to include characters not only from Jobs' work life, but his personal life as well, including his father, wife, and even detail the troubled relationship with his daughter Lisa Brennan-Jobs.

This September the opera will be workshopped in San Francisco, with the Santa Fe Opera partnering with Cal Performances at UC Berkeley and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music to put on the first show. Since his death in 2011, Jobs' personal and professional life has been the subject of multiple books, documentaries, and films. The most recent of which -- Danny Boyle's Steve Jobs film -- is set for a release on October 9 after premiering a week earlier at the 53rd Annual New York Film Festival.

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[Jeremy1026]

No way this goes poorly...no way in all.

 

[musika]

If Jobs knew about this, he'd probably scream.

 

[szw-mapple fan]

Enough already. This is over doing it.

 

[WaxedJacket]

I'm highly anticipating the Steve Jobs lunch box and flame thrower.

 

[nouveau-apple]

What is the (R) for? Is it rated R? Is it a copyright? ®evolution of Steve Jobs?

Either way, stop trying to make a Steve Jobs movie happen. It's not going to happen.

 

[CFreymarc]

I like it. I bet the Steve Jobs role is sung by a Tenor.

 

[keysofanxiety]

I'm highly anticipating the Steve Jobs lunch box and flame thrower.

Moichendising, moichendising, moichendising!

Steve Jobs the breakfast cereal!

 

[keysofanxiety]

I like it. I bet the Steve Jobs role is sung by a Tenor.

Heh heh and Bill Gates would be a Soprano

 

[CFreymarc]

Heh heh and Bill Gates would be a Soprano

While I get the "girly man" joke, Gates would probably be an Alto or a Contralto.

 

[Gasu E.]

I like it. I bet the Steve Jobs role is sung by a Tenor.

"That Tenor does not sound at all like Jobs."

 

[CFreymarc]

Moichendising, moichendising, moichendising!

Steve Jobs the breakfast cereal!

The Steve Jobs condom! I'll let the more regular lowbrow voices of this community take it from here.

 

[keysofanxiety]

While I get the "girly man" joke, Gates would probably be an Alto or a Contralto.

My second guess was Castrati

 

[Gasu E.]

Heh heh and Bill Gates would be a Soprano

Which one? Probably Tony, but I could also see him Silvio.

 

[Mildredop]

What is the (R) for? Is it rated R? Is it a copyright? ®evolution of Steve Jobs?

Either way, stop trying to make a Steve Jobs movie happen. It's not going to happen.

I thought it already had happened?

 

[5105973]

An opera. About Steve Jobs. Zzzzzzzzzzzz

 

[maxsix]

Anything for a ...

 

[CFreymarc]

Which one? Probably Tony, but I could also see him Silvio.

Paulie was my favorite.

 

[chouseworth]

This is getting kind of silly. An opera?

 

[2457282]

Steve Jobs could not sing. THIS is doomed, I tell you!



Okay fun aside, I will reserve judgement until I see the reviews of the opera.
(and then I will probably laugh. just saying)

 

[BornAgainMac]

I want a Angry Birds Angry Steve Jobs game.

 

[Lauvid]

Any picks for a title. What about, 'Il Duce di Cupertino' ?

 

[subjonas]

I'm also working on a series of Steve Jobs haikus. I'll have them published before the year is out.

 

[FieldingMellish]

….
Listening to you, I get the iPod
Gazing at you, I get the apps
Following you, I climb the HQ
I get excitement at your feet
Right behind you, I earn the millions
…..

 

[szw-mapple fan]

I like it. I bet the Steve Jobs role is sung by a Tenor.

Imagine the iPhone launch keynote, but instead of words everything was sung.