Santa Fe Opera gets 4 Grammy nominations for ‘Jobs’
The Santa Fe Opera recording of The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs, which had its world premiere here in July 2017, has been nominated for four Grammy Awards.
Performances were recorded live for an album released this year on the Pentatone label.
Among the categories for which it was nominated are Best Opera Recording, which the Recording Academy describes as an award for the conductor, Michael Christie; the album producer, Elizabeth Ostrow; and principal soloists, Sasha Cooke, Jessica E. Jones, Edward Parks, Garrett Sorenson and Wei Wu.
Ostrow also was nominated for Producer of the Year, Classical.
The electro-acoustic work of composer Mason Bates with librettist Mark Campbell earned a nomination for Best Contemporary Classical Composition.
A nomination for Best Engineered Album, Classical, lists Mark Donahue and Dirk Sobotka, engineers, and Mark Donahue, mastering engineer.
The Recording Academy website says Grammy winners will be announced in February.
The work was a Santa Fe Opera co-commission with the Seattle Opera and the San Francisco Opera, which co-produced the opera with the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, where it was performed in September.
The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs is scheduled to open Feb. 23 at the Seattle Opera and will be performed in the San Francisco Opera’s 2019-20 season.