SOUNDS BRILLIANT!!!!
Sep 17—Sep 28, 2013
Performance dates & times
LOCATION:
Peter Jay Sharp Building
BAM Howard Gilman Opera House
RUN TIME: 2hrs 30min
SEASON TICKET PRICE: $17.50—188
FULL PRICE TICKETS:
$25—$235
Part of
2013 Next Wave Festival
BAM and New York City Opera present
Anna Nicole
Composed by Mark-Anthony Turnage
Libretto by Richard Thomas
Directed by Richard Jones
Conducted by Steven Sloane
Anna Nicole was commissioned by the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London and premiered there in February 2011
Anna Nicole
Composed by Mark-Anthony Turnage
Libretto by Richard Thomas
Directed by Richard Jones
Conducted by Steven Sloane
Anna Nicole was commissioned by the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London and premiered there in February 2011
“…an engrossing, outrageous, entertaining and, ultimately, deeply moving new opera.”
—The New York Times
In a brilliant marriage of lowbrow bawdiness and highbrow
operatic craft, British composer Mark-Anthony Turnage and
librettist Richard Thomas (Jerry Springer: The Opera)
immortalize the tumultuous life of Anna Nicole Smith—stripper,
playmate, and formidable tabloid queen.
Looking to each paparazzi-plagued chapter of the star’s story—the bombshell centerfold, the devastated mother, the unlikely wife of an 89-year-old billionaire—Anna Nicole captures a woman caught between greed and exploitation. Turnage’s vibrant, eclectic score (performed by the New York City Opera orchestra and chorus) and Thomas’ razor-sharp libretto drive this operatic portrait, at once comic and tragic, of modern celebrity and one woman’s warped pursuit of the American dream.
Looking to each paparazzi-plagued chapter of the star’s story—the bombshell centerfold, the devastated mother, the unlikely wife of an 89-year-old billionaire—Anna Nicole captures a woman caught between greed and exploitation. Turnage’s vibrant, eclectic score (performed by the New York City Opera orchestra and chorus) and Thomas’ razor-sharp libretto drive this operatic portrait, at once comic and tragic, of modern celebrity and one woman’s warped pursuit of the American dream.
