Product Description

Flamboyant and foul-mouthed, Anna Nicole makes a provocative addition to operas chronicles of bad, sad girls. Anna Nicole Smith, the Playboy model who married an octogenarian billionaire, became a grotesque star of reality TV before dying, destitute and drug-riddled, at the age of just 39. After the works 2011 premiere at the Royal Opera House, the New York Times hailed an engrossing, outrageous, entertaining and, ultimately deeply moving opera ... an improbable triumph for Covent Garden.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #18183 in DVD
• Published on: 2011-09-30
• Released on: 2011-08-01
• Rating: Exempt
• Aspect ratio: 16:9 - 1.77:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: Classical, Widescreen
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: English, French, German, Spanish
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 120 minutes

Review
...It's a tremendous show...shocking it isn't; stunning it is! --The Independent

Eva-Maria Westbroek is the game soprano who takes on the title- role,singing in excellent English and making the journey from glamour babe to fat-and-frumpy loser with admirable panache.Bit then the whole cast is excellent,from Gerald Finley's lawyer Stern and Susan Bickley's feisty Mother to Alan Oke as the 89-year-old second husband,all bolstered by a vivid musical performance under Pappano. --Gramophone,Nov'11