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It was just last week, upon the reveal of a trailer for a new documentary looking at late Apple founder Steve Jobs, that it started to feel like overkill.
The man who brought us the Mac, iPod, iPhone and iPad has unsurprisingly been the focus of much attention since his death in 2011, but with two movies and a documentary already devoted to his life and work the story is becoming very familiar.
But that hasn’t stopped one US city from taking Jobs’ story into a new medium: opera.
Yes, the Santa Fe Opera has confirmed that their 2017 season will feature The Revolution Of Steve Jobs, with composer Mason Bates saying the production will “examine Jobs facing his own mortality and circles back to the events and people in his past that shaped and inspired him”.
As Apple news website Cult of Mac put it: “Remember the time Jobs broke into song while firing the MobileMe team? Soon you will.”
Incredibly, this isn’t actually the first time Jobs has featured in an opera, with France’s Opera de Lyon last year combining the stories of Jobs and King Henry V to perform a variation on Shakespeare’s play, called Steve Five (King Different).
There have also been several graphic novels and countless books on Jobs, but maybe opera is a step too far. Though we are looking forward to the song about deciding to use Xerox’s PARC graphical user interface as the inspiration for the first Macintosh’s desktop.
