According to the Sun, the Royal Opera House in London will create a lavish show based on Anna Nicole Smith’s life and will be completed by 2011.
A spokeswoman at the Royal Opera House said the work was in its early stages. Director of opera Elaine Padmore said: “It is not going to be tawdry, it is going to be witty, clever, thoughtful and sad.
“In broad outline, it will tell the story of her life, the people who influenced her, her progress… “Clearly the story is about a woman who met an ancient gentleman in a wheelchair, but it’s not going to be a straight narrative.
“Choices have been made about significant moments, selecting which incidents in her life are to be built up.” Ms Padmore said the work was not just a documentary about Smith, but a parable about celebrity. She said it was a very sad story, “a larger-than-life American story, it was Puccini’s Girl of the Golden West. “It will be a slice of our times – of America in the pre-Obama days”.
