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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”.

Anna Nicole Turnage

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