joining me now is mason bates of the kpo and also steve campbell, he came up with the words. ntlemen, it is good to have you here >> great to be here. >> mason, this is your concept why is steve jobs' life deserving an operatic treatment? >> yeah, how can technology be the subject in opera steve jobs has everything in it that a great opera has, he's got passion, creativity and love and anger and redemption >> obsession >> the thing that makes interesting for opera is we change the way we communicate with our devices and opera can tell the story of how people communicate of different kinds of music weeping in and out. >> mark, how about you how are you telling the story with the words >> it is not just of the te technological resolutivolutionse words. >> they did consult with you of the family, have they seen the work >> we reached out as a courtesy to let them know this is happening. this is a very honest, sympathetic portrait of steve jobs who had a positive and negative charge and his wife really grounded him. we did let him know that this was happening. i am sure being in t