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Anna Nicole Opera Bound for London

Posted Apr 4, 08 5:46 PM CDT in Arts & Living,  Gossip 

(Newser) – Playboy playmate, reality TV wreck, tragic heroine? London's famed Covent Garden has commissioned an opera based on the tumultuous life of Anna Nicole Smith, Reuters reports. The librettist best known for creating the hit musical Jerry Springer: The Opera is penning what he called an "incredible story" and planning a 2010 premiere.

"It's very operatic and sad," Richard Thomas told the Independent. "She was quite a smart lady with the tragic flaw that she could not seem to get through life without a vat of prescription painkillers." The story won't extend past her death, he said: "For me, it ends when she does."

Sources Reuters, Independent (UK)

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Anna Nicole Smith poses with Hugh Hefner during Playboy's 50th anniversary party at the Playboy Mansion in Los Angeles in 2003. Smith's life will be the basis of a new opera.   (AP Photo)
Anna Nicole Smith poses for photographers after arriving for a movie premiere at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in LA on Feb. 14, 2005. Smith's life has inspired a new opera.   (AP Photo)
Anna Nicole Smith poses for a photo as she arrives for the VH1 "Big in '04" awards, in this Dec. 1, 2004, file photo in Los Angeles. Smith, the former Playboy playmate whose bizarre life careened from...   (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill, file )
This image released by Playboy Enterprises, Inc., shows the May 2007 collector's edition honoring Anna Nicole Smith, who will be the subject of a new opera.   (Getty Images)
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