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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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Composer: Mark Anthony Turnage
Anna Nicole:Eva-Maria Westbroek
Virgie:Susan Bickley
Daddy Hogan:Jeremy White
Aunt Kay:Rebecca de Pont Davies
Shelley:Loré Lixenbery
Billy:Grant Doyle
Stern:Gerald Finley
Doctor Yes:Andrew Rees
J.Howard Marshall II:Alan Oke
Band - Drummer:Peter Erskine
Bass Guitarist:John Paul Jones
Guitarist:John Paricelli
Royal Opera Chorus
Chorus Director: Renato Balsadonna
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House
Concert Master: Vasko Vassilev
Conductor: Antonio Pappano
Director:Richard Jones
Set Designs:Miriam Buether
Costume Designs:Nicky Gillibrand
Lighting Design:Mimi Jordan Sherin and D M Wood
Choreographer:Aletta Collins
Directed for the screen by Francesca Kemp
Bonus: Cast gallery / Illustrated synopsis / Behind the scenes feature including artist interviews.
ADVISORY WARNING: CONTAINS EXPLICIT LANGUAGE AND SCENES OF A SEXUAL NATURE
Picture: 16:9
Sound: LPCM 2.0 stereo / DTS 5.1 Surround
Format: NTSC
Region code: 0 worldwide
Running Time: 120+9 mins
Subtitles:EN/FR/DE/ES
