Anne Nicole

Composer: Turnage, Mark Anthony

Librettist/Text Author: Thomas, Richard

Conductor: Pappano, Antonio

Orchestra: Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden

Chorus: Royal Opera House Chorus, Covent Garden

Chorus Master: Balsadonna, Renato

Anna Nicole: Westbroek, Eva-Maria

Aunt Kay: Davies, Rebecca de Pont

Billy: Doyle, Grant

Blossom: Cook, Allison

Cousin Shelley: Lixenberg, Lore

Doctor: Rees, Andrew

Larry King: Hoare, Peter

Mayor: Evans, Wynne

Old Man Marshall: Oke, Alan

Older Daniel: Rowntree, Dominic

The Lawyer Stern: Finley, Gerald

Virgie: Bickley, Susan

Set Designer: Buether, Miriam

Costume Designer: Gillibrand, Nicky

Lighting Designer: Sherin, Mimi Jordan

Lighting Designer: Wood, D.M.

Choreographer: Collins, Aletta

Stage Director: Jones, Richard

Television Director: Kemp, Francesca

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Date of Production: 02-26-2011

Venue: Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London

Playing Time: 02:08:06

Catalogue Number: OA1054D

UPC: 809478010548

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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, drug-riddled 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".