Westbroek has signed on to play the voluptuous blond celebrity in “Anna Nicole,” a new opera by composer Mark-Anthony Turnage that will have its premiere at London’s Royal Opera House next season. The company said the opera would debut on Feb. 17 in a production conducted by Antonio Pappano and directed by Richard Jones.
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Turnage and Thomas have a track record for turning tabloid trash into operatic gold. They previously collaborated on “Jerry Springer: the Opera,” which has been produced on London’s West End and at New York’s Carnegie Hall, starring Harvey Keitel in the lead role.
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Smith, a former stripper, married 89-year-old Texas billionaire J. Howard Marshall in 1994. He died 13 months later, and Smith subsequently spent years in court fighting over her husband’s estate with Marshall’s son from an earlier marriage.
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