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Composer Mark-Anthony Turnage and librettist Richard Thomas were pegged perfectly to compose and write this opera, having worked on Greek and The Silver Tassie and Jerry Springer: the Opera, respectively.

WATCH: Anna Nicole Smith Opera To Premiere At London's Royal Opera House Nicole Campoy-Leffler 2011

Composer Mark-Anthony Turnage and librettist Richard Thomas were pegged perfectly to compose and write this opera, having worked on Greek and The Silver Tassie and Jerry Springer: the Opera, respectively.

WATCH: Anna Nicole Smith Opera To Premiere At London's Royal Opera House Nicole Campoy-Leffler 2011

Composer Mark-Anthony Turnage and librettist Richard Thomas were pegged perfectly to compose and write this opera, having worked on Greek and The Silver Tassie and Jerry Springer: the Opera, respectively.

WATCH: Anna Nicole Smith Opera To Premiere At London's Royal Opera House Nicole Campoy-Leffler 2011

Composer Mark-Anthony Turnage and librettist Richard Thomas were pegged perfectly to compose and write this opera, having worked on Greek and The Silver Tassie and Jerry Springer: the Opera, respectively.

WATCH: Anna Nicole Smith Opera To Premiere At London's Royal Opera House Nicole Campoy-Leffler 2011

Big event of the season: world premiere of Mark-Anthony Turnage's opera with libretto by Jerry Springer: The Opera writer Richard Thomas directed by Richard Jones and conducted by Antonio Pappano.

Winter Arts Calendar 2010

To walk into an opera house is to defy both the hyperelitist strictures of Samuel Beckett (who called it "a hideous corruption" of music because it imposed the specificity of language on an abstract and "immaterial" flow of notes) and the Bronx cheers of Bugs Bunny (nobody who's ever seen "What's Opera, Doc?" will ever get rid of the image of Bugs with Brunnhilde's braids).

In Search Of A Shadow 2007

One of these gentlemen was a well-known opera manager in London; another, a theatrical manager in Manchester; a third, a musical composer and conductor of the orchestra of Her Majesty's Opera in London; and the fourth, Chevalier Wyckoff, who had conducted a successful speculation some years previously by visiting America in charge of the celebrated danseuse, Fanny Ellsler

Life of Hon. Phineas T. Barnum 1891

The company consisted of two or three men of political eminence; Lord Wetherwool, a great agriculturist; Viscount Flash, an amateur of the Fancy; Lord Skimcream, an ex-amateur director of a winter theatre; Lord Flute, an amateur director of the Opera, whose family motto, by a lucky coincidence, is '_Opera non Verba_.'

Real Life In London, Volumes I. and II. Or, The Rambles And Adventures Of Bob Tallyho, Esq., And His Cousin, The Hon. Tom Dashall, Through The Metropolis; Exhibiting A Living Picture Of Fashionable Characters, Manners, And Amusements In High And Low Life (1821) John Badcock 1823

These were my opera pleasures; but another pleasure I had which, as it could be had only on a Saturday night, occasionally struggled with my love of the Opera; for at that time Tuesday and Saturday were the regular opera nights.

Confessions of an English Opium-Eater Thomas De Quincey 1822

The opera honorees, besides Mr. Glass, are Martina Arroyo, a soprano; David DiChiera, a composer and the general director of the Michigan Opera Theatre; and Eve Queler, the music director of Opera

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