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Opera Based On Former Central Texas Waitress Opens Next Year
An opera based on one-time Central Texas chicken restaurant employee Anna Nicole Smith opens next February in London.
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LONDON (March 10, 2010)--The world premiere of Mark-Anthony Turnage's "Anna Nicole" will be presented by the Royal Opera next Feb. 17, starring Dutch soprano Eva-Maria Westbroek as the late model and Playboy playmate who once worked at a chicken restaurant in Mexia.
The Royal Opera says Covent Garden Music Director Antonio Pappano will conduct and Richard Jones will direct.
Turnage is the composer of "Greek" and the West End show "Jerry Springer: The Opera." The libretto is by Richard Thomas.
Smith died of an accidental drug overdose in 2007 at the age of 39.
Smith was born in Houston and spent some of her teenage years in Mexia.
She was Playboy's Playmate of the Year in 1993, and in 1994 she married 89-year-old Houston oil tycoon J. Howard Marshall II.
After his death in 1995, she fought a protracted legal battle with his son over his estimated $500 million estate.
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junor, don't hate cause she is tall, thin and white, your short fat and not white.
I know who is going to play her, that blonde woman from the Baker trail. I know it!!
gold digging white trash drug addicte w..re, love it, hey you got to admire a girl that marries a 90 year old and will sit in court and act insulted that we wouldnt believe she married for true love, the nerve of us, she deserves and opera
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