Galas & Events
Anna Nicole: An Opening Affair
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Spend a night with the American
Dream…stripper, playmate, tabloid queen.
Join BAM and New York City Opera for the US Premiere performance
of Anna Nicole, the opera. Celebrate the international sensation
with us at a bedazzled benefit dinner pre-show, plus a fabulous
after-party with the artists.
Attire: FABULOUS
Proceeds to benefit BAM and New York City Opera
Chair: Joseph A. Stern
Lepercq Space
BAM / Peter Jay Sharp Building / 30 Lafayette Ave / Brooklyn
Start the night with a sumptuous dinner before the performance in the magnificent BAM Lepercq Space.
BAM Howard Gilman Opera House
Peter Jay Sharp Building / 30 Lafayette Ave / Brooklyn
Turnage’s vibrant, eclectic score (performed by the New York City Opera orchestra and chorus) and Thomas’ razor-sharp libretto drive this operatic portrait, at once comic and tragic, of modern celebrity and one woman’s warped pursuit of the American Dream.
Skylight One Hanson
One Hanson Place / Brooklyn (steps away from BAM)
The flamboyant life of Anna Nicole Smith is the subject of this salacious opera by composer Mark-Anthony Turnage and librettist Richard Thomas (Jerry Springer: The Opera), making its US premiere.
Sarah Joy Miller has performed with the New York Lyric Opera and the Long Island Opera.