Turnage: Anna Nicole - DVD

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Turnage: Anna Nicole (OA1054D) (2011)<br /> <br /> 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<br /> <br /> 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,<br /> entertaining and, ultimately deeply moving opera”.<br /> <br /> ".It's a tremendous show...shocking it isn't; stunning it is!" (The Independent)<br /> <br /> "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)