Get Ready for a Night at the Museum (With Steve Jobs)

Is Steve Jobs a tenor or a baritone?

Americans and people around the world carry his life’s work in the palm of our hands, but soon the entrepreneur‘s story will be told in an opera. Premiering in July at the Santa Fe Opera in New Mexico, The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs will chronicle the ups and downs of his life and career.

As a primer, the Guggenheim Museum in New York City will have a two-day preview of the opera as part of its “Works & Process” series in 2017. On April 9 and 10, the public will have the chance to see excerpts of the production for the first time, and participate in a moderated discussion with the creative minds behind the scenes.

The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs is just the latest in a series of popular culture representations of the late innovator’s life. It follows two movies and a best-selling book. Composer Mason Bates, a resident at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, told The Wall Street Journal that the opera will be an impressionistic (rather than realistic) story of the complex character who created the simple products many of us have grown to love.