![]() “The Social Network,” David Fincher’s film on Mark Zuckerberg and the founding of Facebook, might be considered the first tech-start-up rock-opera, with its score by Nine Inch Nails founder Trent Reznor, featuring Edvard Grieg’s In the Hall of the Mountain King. No American businessman has been the hero of an opera since Colorado silver baron Horace Tabor, the subject of Douglas Moore’s The Ballad of Baby Doe (1956), whose tragic end involves William Jennings Bryan and a wrong bet on the gold standard. Their lives are as sensational as their fortunes, with more than enough power struggles, tragedy, adultery, passion, secrets, and betrayal to go around. When will we see full-blown operas of the lives of tech billionaires? Operatic treatments of Jeff Bezos, Peter Thiel, Steve Jobs, Elon Musk, and Elizabeth Holmes practically write themselves. ![]() Billed Into Silence: Money and the Miseducation of Women.
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