Anna Nicole [LE] - Naxos Deutschland

Opera by Mark-Anthony Turnage and Richard Thomas

The Royal Opera commission from composer Mark-Anthony Turnage, librettist Richard Thomas and director Richard Jones adds Anna Nicole Smith to opera's gallery of tragic women. A pneumatic "Playboy" model who married an octogenarian billionaire, she flirted with global fame before falling fatally prey to its allure and corruption. With its jazz-coloured score and Eva-Maria Westbroek's starry performance, this tragicomic take on the extremes of celebrity culture is, as the "New York Times" said, "an engrossing outrageous, entertaining and ultimately deeply moving opera".

"Aufnahme"
Recorded at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, 26 February 2011

"Libretto" by Richard Thomas

"Musik"
Royal Opera Chorus
Conductor: Antonio Pappano

"Darsteller"
Anna Nicole - Eva-Maria Westbroek
Virgie - Susan Bickley
Daddy Hogan - Jeremy White
Aunt Kay - Rebecca de Pont Davies
Shelley - Loré Lixenberg
Billy - Grant Doyle
Stern - Gerald Finley
Doctor Yes - Andrew Rees