Seattle opera pearl fishers review3/26/2023 ![]() ![]() The original production was built in 2017 for Santa Fe Opera, San Francisco Opera, Seattle Opera, and the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University. Just look around you: If you aren’t already holding an Apple product in your hand, chances are someone near you is. The outstanding new opera by Composer Mason Bates and Librettist Mark Campbell employs impressionistic vignettes and reflective flashbacks to tell the life story of a man who probably had greater impact on how we communicate today than anyone in modern history. Steve (John Moore) and Chrisann (Madison Leonard) at Seattle Opera / Photo by Philip Newton Yet by the end of this 90-minute dazzler, we feel we have begun to understand something of the enigmatic visionary: his creative drive, his refusal to accept technological limits, and his significant character flaws. The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs needs no spoiler alert, as the title character is essentially already dead when the opera begins. ![]() By the end of most serious operas you can be pretty sure that at least one main character will be dead. ![]()
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