Texan Emily Newton plays Texan Anna Nicole Smith in what is only the second staging of Mark-Anthony Turnage's Anna Nicole.
Jens-Daniel Herzog's production opens on Saturday night at the Theater Dortmund with the composer in attendance.
The opera is gaining repertoire traction: Richard Jones's production returns to Covent Garden in September 2014 after an outing with New York City Opera in September 2013.
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Tomorrow (Friday) night at 9pm, BBC4 air the hotly-anticipated TV premiere of Anna Nicole, as recorded at the Royal Opera House.
It's preceded at 8.30pm by a potted history of opera tarts, Opera's Fallen Women, presented by Antonio Pappano.
More broadcast times are listed here, and it should emerge on the iPlayer at some point too.
Anna Nicole - Royal Opera House, 1 March 2011
Ultimately I'm not any more convinced by Anna Nicole as a work than I was on opening night, but at least a second listen opened my ears to more references in the score, from Mahler to - ahem - Bryan Adams.
Anna Nicole - Royal Opera House, 17 February 2011 (world premiere)
After weeks of sustained hype, the like of which the Royal Opera House has never seen, the most impressive thing about the Anna Nicole show is its polish.
Richard Jones's splashy, cartoonish production is Vegas-perfect. It catches the eye and tells the story, in a series of tightly-focussed interviews to camera. The orchestra plays immaculately (so far as I could tell on a first-time listen) for Pappano and the cast is unsurpassable from top to bottom.
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