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Organization

Singer

Soprano

Eva-Maria Westbroek

Anna Nicole

Mezzo-soprano

Susan Bickley

Virgie

Loré Lixenberg

Shelley

Bass-baritone

Rod Gilfry

Howard Stern

Tenor

Alan Oke

Old Man Marshall

Allison Cook

Melissa

Andrew Rees

Doctor

Peter Hoare

Larry King

Rebecca de Pont Davies

Aunt Kay

Baritone

Grant Doyle

Billy

Wynne Evans

Mayor

Damian Thantrey

Deputy Mayor

Bass

Jeremy White

Daddy Hogan

Jeffrey Lloyd-Roberts

Trucker

ZhengZhong Zhou

Runner

Conductor

Antonio Pappano

Stage director

Richard Jones

Royal Opera House

London

United Kingdom

In a tragic-comic take on the extremes of celebrity culture, composer Mark Anthony Turnage, librettist Richard Thomas, and director Richard Jones add Anna Nicole Smith to opera’s gallery of bad, sad girls. A pneumatic Playboy model who married an octogenarian billionaire, she achieved grotesque fame before her destitute, drugriddled death. With its jazz-coloured score and Eva-Maria Westbroek’s starry performance, this is, as the New York Times said: “an engrossing outrageous,entertaining and, ultimately deeply moving opera”.

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Sex, celebrity and scandal: Mark-Anthony Turnage's opera draws on the dramatic life and death of Anna Nicole Smith.Find out more at http://www.roh.org.uk/pro...

Anna Nicole trailer (The Royal Opera)

Eva-Maria Westbroek as Anna Nicole and Gerald Finley as Stern from Act II of Mark-Anthony Turnage's opera Anna Nicole.
Find out more at http://www.roh.org.uk/annanicole


A small-town waitress decides to become a stripper, weds an octogenarian billionaire and becomes a Playboy model and celebrity. But as her fame grows, so does the exploitative behaviour of those close to her, the intrusiveness of the media and her own dependence on drink and pills. The flamboyant life and tragic death of Anna Nicole Smith inspired Mark-Anthony Turnage’s opera, commissioned by The Royal Opera and first performed in 2011. The razor-sharp libretto is by Richard Thomas, co-creator of Jerry Springer: the Opera.

Richard Jones’s Olivier-nominated production mixes comedy and tragedy, and boldly confronts the nature of modern celebrity culture. The music fuses jazz, blues and music theatre with more traditional operatic language. Highlights include Anna’s wedding scene, in which she declares her intention to live the ‘American Dream’; a rowdy party, complete with jazz trio; an Expressionist interlude showing the decline of Anna’s fortunes; the long, hopeless list of pills sung by Anna's son Daniel; and Anna’s poignant final lament sung over Daniel's dead body.

Anna Nicole - 'PARTAY!' (The Royal Opera)

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