Anna Nicole Dortmund (Germany) in April 2013 with American soprano Emily Newton in the title role. "Anna Nicole" received its U.S. premiere on September 17, 2013, in a production by the New York City Opera at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the last work staged by the City Opera before its closure that year. Anna Nicole Anna Nicole is an English opera in 2 acts and 16 scenes, with music by Mark-Anthony Turnage to an English libretto by Richard Thomas. Based on the life of Anna Nicole Smith, the opera received its première on 17 February 2011 at the Royal Opera House,
Mark-Anthony Turnage Mark-Anthony Turnage Mark-Anthony Turnage CBE (born 10 June 1960) is an English composer of classical music. Turnage was born in Corringham, Essex. His initial musical studies were with Oliver Knussen, John Lambert, and later with Gunther Schuller. He also has been strongly influenced by jazz, in particular by the work of Miles Davis, and has composed works featuring jazz performers including John Scofield, Peter Erskine, John Patitucci, and Joe Lovano. Turnage has composed numerous orchestral and chamber works, and three full-length operas. "Greek", composed with the encouragement of Hans Werner Henze and first performed in 1988 at the Munich Biennale,