The librettist of a new opera based on Anna Nicole Smith’s life defends his choice of subject:
“People ask me if she’s worthy,” he wrote. “What’s ‘worthy’? And who gets to decide? Everything is a fitting subject for an opera. Every life lived contains glory and tragedy. If we live our lives on a scale of one to 10, then most of us, most of the time, experience something between three and seven. Anna was ones and 10s from beginning to end.”
