As a composer who makes his home in the Bay Area, Mason Bates has ample opportunity to observe the technology community on a daily basis.
“They are very creative people,” the composer, 38, said. “I thought there could be a way to write something about a creative technologist who would be the focus of a story. And Steve Jobs touches on the creative, technological and human side of things.”
The complicated personal and professional lives of the late Apple co-founder will be the subject of Bates' new opera, “The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs,” which will have its world premiere in 2017 at Santa Fe Opera in New Mexico, the company announced Wednesday.