Genre:

Opera

Release Date:

Aug 2011

Recorded:

2011

Number of Discs:

1

Sound:

2.0LPCM + 5.1(5.0) DTS

Subtitles:

EN, FR, DE, ES

Aspect Ratio:

16:9 Anamorphic

Display:

NTSC

Catalog Number:

OA1054D

Turnage: Anna Nicole (The Royal Opera)

Eva-Maria Westbroek (Anna Nicole); Gerald Finley (The Lawyer Stern); Alan Oke (Old Man Marshall); Susan Bickley (Virgie);

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 operas 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.

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)

Extra features

Cast gallery. Illustrated synopsis. Behind the scenes feature including artist interviews.