Description
MARK-ANTHONY TURNAGE RICHARD THOMAS: ANNA NICOLE / ROYAL OPERA CHORUS / ORCHESTRA OF THE ROYAL OPERA HOUSE / OPUS Arte
UPC: 809478010548
Playtime is 120 Minutes
- Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
- MPAA rating: NR (Not Rated)
- Product Dimensions: 5.55 x 0.79 x 7.76 inches; 0.01 Ounces
- Item model number: OA1054D
- Director: Richard Jones, Antonio Pappano
- Media Format: Multiple Formats, Color, NTSC, Surround Sound, Classical, DTS Surround Sound
- Run time: 2 hours
- Release date: September 27, 2011
- Actors: Eva-Maria Westbroek, Alan Oke, Gerald Finley, Susan Bickley, Lore Lixenberg
- Subtitles: English, French, German, Spanish
- Language: English (Dolby Digital 5.1), Spanish (Dolby Digital 5.1)
- Studio: Opus Arte
- Country of Origin: USA
- Number of discs: 1
Summary:
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 Tumes said, "an engrossing, outrageous, entertaining and ultimately deeply moving opera.
Sung in English with French, German
"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)
