Berlin (Reuters) – the genteel world of opera is faced with lurid headlines, strip club and Playboy Thursday when a new work based on the life of the late Anna Nicole Smith has its premiere at London's Royal Opera House.
"Anna Nicole" is one of the projects risky company the prestigious opera yet, both because it leaves open Covent Garden to accusations of sensationalism in an attempt to stay relevant is because some of the characters of the story are still alive.
According to British media, attorneys are nervous, particularly as regards the ex-boyfriend tabloid star Smith k. Howard Stern where belief in providing you with drugs before his death in 2007 was dismissed last month.
Royal Opera House has not denied the reports, but refused to comment in detail on the content of the work or if alterations were made at the last minute for legal reasons.
The Press Office confirmed that the execution of six shows, from 17 February and ends on March 4, had exhausted.
The company's Web site, called the new work "a celebrity story of our times that includes the extreme language, substance abuse and sexual content," and imposed a minimum age of 16.
"This new work is provocative in its themes, exciting in its cleverness and exciting contemporary with its sheer nerve," added in language usually reserved for the reality TV.
"Life of Anna Nicole Smith did the news--you can bet too this desire for world premiere".
DUTCH SINGER IN THE LEAD ROLE
Smith died 38 years of a prescription drug overdose accidental in Florida. At the time of his death, the former pin-up model and reality television star was involved in a legal battle over the will of the husband, the billionaire oil tycoon j. Howard Marshall.
They were married when he was 26 years old and was 89.
Dutch Soprano Eva-Maria Westbroek will play the role of blonde voluptuous in the last work of composer Mark-Anthony Turnage, under the direction of Richard Jones.
The libretto is by Richard Thomas, no stranger to controversy following his musical "Jerry Springer: the Opera" offended many Christians and has attracted a record number of complaints, when it was aired on BBC in 2005.
In a recent piece written for the daily Times, Thomas admits feeling nervous and spoke of the risks involved in putting on a new work.
"Unlike musical works does not have the luxury of a preview period," he wrote. "There is a dress rehearsal and then BANG--opening night".
In addition, defended the choice of Smith as a subject for a large production again in one of opera houses the world over, pointing out that many pillar opera heroines led away-from-exemplary life.
"Nobody goes to work for judging Salome or Carmen".
Westbroek played a role at Covent Garden as colorful as 2006 when she starred in "Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk," about a bored housewife who resorts to murder and adultery to escape his match.
The main difference with Smith is that she's not imaginary, died only four years ago and a court battle involving claims to part of Fortune left by her deceased husband have rumbled up in US courts.
(By Mike Collett-White, editing by Paul Casciato reporting)
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