Anna Nicole Smith To Be The Subject Of New Opera

Because you can only see La bohème or Don Giovanni so many times before thinking, ‘What… what is this missing?’ before snapping your fingers and exclaiming, ‘Where’s the fried chicken?!?,’ English composer Mark-Anthony Turnage will be blessing us all on February 12, 2011 with the world premiere of his new opera, Anna Nicole. As in, Anna Nicole Smith. Yes, her.

Associated Press reports that the opera is set to debut at the Royal Opera with Dutch soprano Eva-Maria Westbroek in the lead roll, direction by Richard Jones and conduction by Antonio Pappano.

One can only guess as to why Smith’s epic life is only just now being married to the sweeping drama of live opera – born in Texas, Smith was a high school dropout who briefly worked for Wal-Mart and Red Lobster before turning to stripping, which in turn led to Playboy modeling, softcore pornographic film, reality TV and marrying an 89-year-old oil tycoon at the age of 26 before dying of an accidental drug overdose in Hollywood, Florida in 2007, at which time she became the center of a media circus — as her story is marked by a series of classic opera tropes as found in the seminal works of Maybeer, Verdi and Wagner. TrimSpa, baby!

What do you think of this? Should Anna Nicole Smith get her own opera?