Alexander Chancellor

After the Anna Nicole Smith opera, whose turn is it next? David Beckham’s?

Alexander Chancellor gives a Shared Opinion

issue 03 April 2010

So Anna Nicole Smith — the poor, talentless Texan girl who by virtue of the most enormous bosom became a stripper in a Houston clip joint and married one of its regular customers, a wheelchair-bound oil billionaire 63 years her senior — is to be the subject of a new opera that will receive its first performance at the Royal Opera House next year.

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