The Royal Opera commission from composer Mark-Anthony Turnage, librettist Richard Thomas and director Richard Jones adds Anna Nicole Smith to opera's gallery of tragic women. A pneumatic Playboy model who married an octogenarian billionaire, she flirted with global fame before falling fatally prey to its allure and corruption.
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With its jazz-coloured score and Eva-Maria Westbroeck's starry performance, this tragicomic take on the extremes of celebrity culture is, as the New York Times said, "an engrossing, outrageous, entertaining and ultimately deeply moving opera" (Source : jaquette)
