The scandalous life of Anna Nicole Smith will be brought to the Opera
The life of Anna Nicole Smith could have been invented, but instead of serving as the script for a soap opera, the life of the American model is the script for a format considered artistically serious: an opera that opens on February 17 in the spectacular rooms of the Royal Opera House in London, published DPA.
Despite the fact that at first some voices protested against the project, now many critics are convinced that Anna Nicole Smith is actually the ideal candidate for the arias of an opera with her tragedy, sadness, scandal and comedy.
The great ladies of classical opera would also occupy the headlines of gossip magazines today, according to the British conservative newspaper "The Daily Telegraph": Puccini's "Tosca" murders the police chief who wants to rape her ; Richard Strauss's “Salomé” is a psychotic young woman who asks for a head on a platter; while Alban Berg's “Lulu” is a prostitute murdered by Jack “The Ripper”.
And will Anna Nicole Smith, who saw herself as a successor to Marilyn Monroe, even though to many she was simply an ordinary woman, stand the comparison? The author of the libretto Richard Thomas is sure that it is. He has been the one who has turned the story of the model into the opera “Anna Nicole”. “People ask me is she really important enough? But what does she important her? And who decides who is and who is not? Everything is suitable as a theme for an opera. In all life there is splendor and tragedy.
