{"id":6434,"date":"2011-02-18T08:52:33","date_gmt":"2011-02-18T13:52:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=6434"},"modified":"2011-02-18T08:52:33","modified_gmt":"2011-02-18T13:52:33","slug":"anna-nicole-reimagined-in-opera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2011\/02\/anna-nicole-reimagined-in-opera","title":{"rendered":"Anna Nicole Reimagined in&#8230; Opera?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An opera about Anna Nicole Smith &#8211; the  American sex symbol, Playboy Playmate, hapless model, laughable actress  and fortune-hunting wife of a billionaire 62 years her senior?\u00a0  Commissioned by, no less, the Royal Opera at Covent Garden?\u00a0 When the plans were announced it sounded like a  dubious idea, a tawdry way for a major opera house to look hip.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Anna Nicole,&#8221; the opera by the British composer Mark-Anthony Turnage and the British librettist Richard Thomas,  finally had its premiere here at the Royal Opera on Thursday night  before a sold-out house with standees everywhere. And it proved a  weirdly inspired work, an engrossing, outrageous, entertaining and,  ultimately, deeply moving new opera. This was an improbable triumph for  Covent Garden.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The woman who played Bahamian politicians like Pan played the flute, and who created a papparazzi feeding frenzy here in the Bahamas, is still drawing audiences years after her death. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[26,46,22,113],"class_list":["post-6434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-arts","tag-celebrities","tag-music","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6434\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}