Name: The man behind the machine.
Start: 2025-05-09
End: 2025-05-09
Location: John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

Organization

Admin

Washington National Opera

Conductor

Lidiya Yankovskaya

Singer

Baritone

John Moore

Steve Jobs

Mezzo-soprano

Winona Martin

Lauren Jobs

Tenor

Jonathan Burton

Steve Wozniak

Bass

Wu Wei

Kobun Chino Otogawa

Justin Burgess

Paul Jobs

Orchestra

The Kennedy Center Opera House Orchestra

Costume designer

Jacob A Climer

Lighting designer

Robert Wierzel

Stage director

Tomer Zvulun

Revival Director

Rebecca Herman

English

The man behind the machine.

Washington D.C.

United States

John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

Opera House

The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs Bates, Mason

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The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs

Sushant Karmakar

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His products changed the world and put instant connection at our fingertips. But behind tech mogul Steve Jobs was a life shaped by triumphs, trials, and contradictions.

Step into the orbit of the Apple co-founder who rose from garage genius to tech titan. With a Grammy®–winning score by Kennedy Center Composer-in-Residence emeritus Mason Bates and libretto by Pulitzer Prize–winning librettist Mark Campbell, The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs offers an operatic journey through the interior workings and spiritual journey of an innovator. Bates merges an electronic soundscape with Campbell’s classical lyricism to immerse audiences in the world of Silicon Valley in the 1980s.

Across his life, Jobs played husband, father, spiritual seeker, and industry leader. He was also protagonist and antagonist, cycling between destruction and redemption, disillusion and reality. As Jobs comes face-to-face with his mortality, audiences will see that some things can’t be programmed—including humanity.

The man behind the machine. by Bates, Mason, Fri 09 May 2025, From (2025/2025), Directed by Tomer Zvulun,, Conductor Lidiya Yankovskaya, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington D.C., United States

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