Mark Campbell Gives Steve Jobs the Opera Treatment

Mark Campbell Gives Steve Jobs the Opera Treatment

Librettist Mark Campbell has penned nearly 40 operas, including one about Silicon Valley's most mythologized figure.

A user-friendly opera about Steve Jobs powers up at the Kennedy Center - 3 Quarks Daily

Michael Brodeur in The Washington Post: “The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs” doesn’t so much begin as start up. When the first flourish of composer Mason Bates’s score rings out — a wobbly, synthetic chime of sorts — you’d swear someone had pressed a power button in the orchestra pit. On Friday evening at the Kennedy Center, the Washington National Opera opened its production of Bates’s opera with a libretto by Mark Campbell — its tenth since the o…