Anna Nicole Smith: The Opera
"It is not going to be a horrible, sleazy evening," Elaine Padmore, Covent Garden's director of opera told the Guardian. "It is not going to be tawdry; it is going to be witty, clever, thoughtful and sad.
Clearly the story is about a woman who met an ancient gentleman in a wheelchair
There will be no shortage of dramatic material. Smith, born Vickie Lynn Hogan in 1967, dropped out of her Texan high school, married a fellow worker at Jim's Krispy Fried Chicken - and then transformed herself, via a breast enhancement, into a glamour model and pole dancer.
She married J Howard Marshall when he was 89, and she 26. After his death she pursued what she argued was her share of her inheritance through the courts, fought by her late husband's son. She briefly became the (anti)heroine of her own reality TV show; her weight ballooned and she received liposuction. Three days after the birth of her daughter, of no certain father, her 20-year-old son by her first marriage died; five months later, in 2007, she was dead herself.
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