Steve Jobs Opera Scores Smash Hit For Mason Bates

Classical Voice North America: Composers who attempt to tame the artistic beast known as opera often must make several tries before coming close to their goal, if they ever do. Then there’s someone like Mason Bates, who has shot out of the starting gate and raced across the finish line with his first opera, The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs, which had its world premiere July 22 at the Santa Fe Opera.