Turnage- Anna Nicole

Product Description 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”. Press Reviews "It's a tremendous show...shocking it isn't; stunning it is!" (The Independent) "The more Turnage and his librettist, Richard Thomas, pile one cringe-making scene upon another, the harder it is to look away...the whole cast is excellent..." (Gramophone) "such pulsing energy and raucous humour in a brassy, vivid score that is perfectly matched to its trailer-trash subject...Nobody...could fail to admire Richard Jones's flamboyantly inventive staging or Eva-Maria Westbroek's brave and sassy performance in the title role of the rags-to-riches girl who married a billionaire and met a tragic end. " (The Daily Telegraph) Cast Eva-Maria Westbroek (Anna Nicole) Gerald Finley (The Lawyer Stern) Alan Oke (Old Man Marshall) Susan Bickley (Virgie) The Orchestra of the Royal Opera House; Antonio Pappano ProductionCompany: The Royal OperaStage Director: Richard Jones Disc InformationCatalogue Number: OA1054DDate of Performance: 2011Running Time: 120 minutesSound: 2.0LPCM + 5.1(5.0) DTSAspect Ratio: 16:9 AnamorphicSubtitles: EN, FR, DE, ESLabel: Opus Arte Review '...It's a tremendous show...shocking it isn't; stunning it is!' --The Independent