The tragic life of Anna Nicole Smith has already been made into a made-for-tv-movie, but since we are all suckers for a trainwreck, a nice British gentleman is going to turn her sad life into an opera. Yes, an opera.

“It is not going to be a horrible, sleazy evening,” Elaine Padmore, Covent Garden’s director of opera told the Guardian. “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.”

The story is disturbing enough just in print, I cannot imagine the awfulness of watching in operatic form. Can’t we just let this poor woman rest in peace already?

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