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London, March 11 (IANS) Late Playboy model Anna Nicole Smith’s life story is being made into an opera.
The troubled model, who died aged 39 in 2007 after an accidental overdose of prescription drugs, will be the focus of the production that will be shown at the Royal Opera House in London, reports telegraph.co.uk.

The opera will be titled “Anna Nicole” and has been written by composer Mark-Anthony Turnage, who created the controversial “Jerry Springer: The Opera”, based on the outspoken talk show host and his shocking guests.

It will debut at the venue February 17, 2011, with the role of Anna Nicole, whose real name was Vickie Lynne Smith, played by Dutch soprano Eva-Maria Westbroek.

The Royal Opera House said the premiere would be “a major event in the UK arts calendar”.

Details of the storyline were not unveiled, but Anna Nicole’s colourful life is likely to be included.

Starting as a stripper, she went on to marry oil baron J. Howard Marshall when he was 89 years old and she was 26 years old. She went on to fight for his estate in the courts following his death.

In 2006, her 20-year-old son Daniel died of a drugs overdose, just three days after she gave birth to her second child, daughter Dannielynn.