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 opera’s premiere at Santa Fe Opera in 2017. Guest conductor Lidiya Yankovskaya led the Washington National Opera Orchestra and Chorus in this revival of Tomer Zvulun’s production, here directed by Rebecca Herman.
The set is an austere arrangement of scaffolding and screens, a versatile scheme that shuttles viewers through time and space: from the humble garage workshop where Jobs and Steve Wozniak first tinkered with their clunky prototypes in the early 1970s, to the depths of Yosemite National Park in the early 1990s, to a tech conference in San Francisco where the iPhone was launched in 2007 — though not necessarily in that order.
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