When was the last time you went to the opera and felt you had a vital, exciting and dramatic experience? Opera needs higher, critical expectations if we are to keep it alive, argues Anne Midgette.
Steve Jobs, Apple’s late visionary leader, has inspired books, films and an opera, and all of them took a lot of research. That research led to a 650-page exhaustively detailed book by Walter Isaacson. It led to a feature film by Aaron Sorkin that focused on Jobs’s (inexcusable) treatment of his oldest daughter, Lisa, whose paternity he long tried to deny. And it led to the libretto of an opera... Keep reading on The Washington Post
Steve Jobs, Apple’s late visionary leader, has inspired books, films and an opera, and all of them took a lot of research. That research led to a 650-page exhaustively detailed book by Walter Isaacson. It led to a feature film by Aaron Sorkin that focused on Jobs’s (inexcusable) treatment of his oldest daughter, Lisa, whose paternity he long tried to deny. And it led to the libretto of an opera... Keep reading on The Washington Post