One more thing: Opera mashes up Steve Jobs, Shakespeare

Jobs surrounded by his team of singing software engineers.

(Credit: Video screenshot by Eric Mack/CNET)

Steve Jobs built his castle through Apple from which to oversee a digital kingdom, complete with the world’s most sought-after walled garden seeded with beautiful devices in constant bloom. Jobs was as much a king of computers as Shakespeare’s Henry V was king of England, or at least that’s the premise behind an opera that mashes up the lives of the two leaders, which debuts Friday at the Theatre de la Renaissance in France.

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