Tu? Indietro! Fugly!
A loyal reader calls this little number "the worst gown I've ever seen."
La Cieca she agrees that Mme. Guleghina's fashion faux pas here just screams, "that was no lady, that was Lady Macbeth." On the other hand, your doyenne has seen some rather ghastly frocks in her time, and she's sure, cher public, that you have seen worse. If you have, send a jpg (preferably 350 pixels wide or larger) or a link to lacieca@parterre.com. Let's dish!
La Cieca she agrees that Mme. Guleghina's fashion faux pas here just screams, "that was no lady, that was Lady Macbeth." On the other hand, your doyenne has seen some rather ghastly frocks in her time, and she's sure, cher public, that you have seen worse. If you have, send a jpg (preferably 350 pixels wide or larger) or a link to lacieca@parterre.com. Let's dish!
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The Kathleen Battle at Carnegie Hall album cover takes some beating.
Don't mess with my tutu.
Joan Sutherland's frock at her farewell was a bit of a monster. Bless her, she had to walk sideways onto the stage as it was so big and in the most shocking green.
Or Jessye Norman's bejeweled housecoat and turban look at the Carnegie Hall Spirituals Concert with the aforementioned Kathleen. She really should have stuck with Miyake.
Angela Gheorghiu in her early days, needed some help. In the first recital I saw her, she looked like some 50's throwback. Off stage, were those cast offs from Madame Chaucescu.
I am sorry I think she looks HOT!!!!! And when is the last time any Dramatic soprano could even fit into that dress. She makes Netrebko look dumpy. Can you imagine Dimitrova, Nillson or anyone else in that rep looking fuckable? To anyone that is sighted, that is.
She fits into that dress? She looks like she is so squeezed in a third t*t might pop out of the hole in the middle.
Dear Maria Guleghina:
You are not a sexpot. You have never been a sexpot. You will never be a sexpot. Stop it. Please, before someone goes blind, stop it.
JATM2063
What is she singing here? "Dein ist mein ganzes Herz?"
No gay friends.
JATM2063, it's not as bad as all that, is it? She's not hideous, just not that great...and I'm sure she's still got sex appeal to a number of people...
scary to think that only a little clasp separates us from the pride(s) of odessa!
She could have, but she tries waaaaaay tooooo hard. Take that same dress about two sizes up, remove the center cutout thingy, and it would probably be fine. As it is she just looks like a Slavic harlot.
I do hope some other people have some scandalous pics to share.
Hoping for a wardrobe malfunction?
It will never happen, no matter what the tension is between the "headlights." The clasp must have been reinforced with steelwire. Talking about gowns, I think Netrebko's silver brocade gown she wore at the Baden-Baden concert looked stunning, even if she didn't look at her best with the thick, long, and unflattering ponytail.
Maybe she is trying to distract people from her singing. That was such a promising voice but alas...
Can we please stop saying that tired and totally false statement, "no gay friends". As this site proves, gays only want other women to look horrible, gives them something to talk about instead of their own sagging tits, flacid weeners, and going home alone after last call! sorry girls...
Haven't got a link for it, but Guleghina's party gown in Macbeth this year was quite the worst Met opera costume I've seen since (scratches head) Ruth Ann's off-the-shoulder I'm-a-Calvinist-slut-and-I'm-okay morning gown from the last (gold) Lucia. Before that, I think it was Dame Joan's pink Act I Trovatore L.L.Bean doubles-as-a-six-man-tent Barbara Matera special that riveted the eye and stuffed the ear.
Jane Eaglen never wore anything that made her look (or sound) human, and I stopped looking.
I'm dating myself, but that means I get all the punchlines.
Agree that the "no gay friends" thing is really tired.
After all, who do you think designs these frocks? GAY MEN
Old Queenie, please speak for yourself. I love my faghags to look beautiful, and as someone who grew up watching movies with gowns by Adrian, Irene Sharif, Helen Rose, et al, I think I know beautiful gowns when I see them. I also know ugly when I see it. I think this gown is ghastly. No one should ever wear that color, because no one looks good in it. And as for sexy, she doesn't hold a candle to Angela Gheorghiu. Angier also sometimes misses (her floral spaghetti strap number on Youtube, for instance), but usually, she looks flawless. Renaaayyy usually looks quite nice, too. Last night, I watched the Spring 2008 Zac Posen show from New York Fashion week and the gowns were gorgeous. Singers could wear, I don't know, Valentino, Marc jacobs, Ralph Lauren, Calvin Klein, Ralph Rucci Chado, Monique Lhuillier, or any number of world class fashion designers, but it seems as if everyone shops at the same bridal shops and buys really ugly Maid of Honor dresses. See the movie 27 Dresses and you'll see 27 recital gowns.
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With all due respect Sanford, I look good in that color. Now I am the last person to blow my own horn but I assure you there is at least one exception to your rule. Unless I don't even rate as a nobody.
I just happen to think that one needs to see more pictures of her in that gown especially a full-length one to really decide if it is working or not.
Sanford! Gheorghiu??? Nuff said...I rest my case...but it's nice you can drop names...Wow! Impressive. Me? I'm total Halston III...
Josephine, I think you would look good in that color and me too!...When JeLo wore a similar one a few years ago, every drag queen in the East Village came in their panties and ran to the Lower East Side to buy fabric to copy it!!!!!
Did any of you listen to the live Nabucco yesterday from...I think Munich... with Maria G? It was hideous. She tried two very pianissimo high notes and they were shockingly bad. At the end, there was a little bit of booing for her, but when the production team came out...massive booing.
I'm expecting it was one of those regie things and we might see pictures of it soon on this site. Just remember: guess "Nabucco" for the next regie contest.
Speaking of which, I just found some YouTube clips of that Domingo-Baltsa "Prophete" from Vienna of a few years ago. Talk about regie. It looks like monkeys in gold crowns are dancing around with Domingo, who is wearing a suit and tie. At the end, the place explodes (although it doesn't really explode) when Domingo pushes down the handle on the modern TNT dynamite box. I'll swear the libretto tells us that it's Berthe who sets fire to the stored powder kegs. Oh well, it's much funnier to have Domingo pushing down the T-bar.
To those of you who do look good in that color, I apologize. it was a broad generlization to make a point, something that most of us have done at one point or another. But as we say in my profession, which is counseling, if it don't apply, let it fly. And as someone old enough to remember leisure suits in that color, well, nuff said. And yes, I think Angela is gorgeous. I wouldn't sleep with her, because I'm saving myuself for all of the barihunks, hunkentenors, and especially my hunkondcuctor, Giovanni Reggioli. As for name dropping, my father worked in the fashion industry when I was growing up, and worked for a time for Betsey Johnson. I never met any designers, but I grew up reading Women's Wear Daily and Vogue. I used to make my own gowns, and copied them out of magazines. Now that I have Ultra HD, I get to see all of the fashion shows in high def. Right now, it's Spring 2008 from Paris. So, yes, I know who the designers are.
My mother told me that if I didn't have anything nice to say, I shouldn't say anything at all.
So I won't say anything about her dress.
Or her singing.
Sugarmezzo, you made me laugh so hard. :-) Speaking of Adrian, Diane English (from Murphy Brown) is remaking The Women, with Meg Ryan as Norma Shearer, Jada Pinkett Smith as Paulette Goddard, and Bette Midler as the Countess De Lave (ah, l'amour. Toujour, l'amour). How about an operatic version?
Angela G - Crystal Allen
Anna Netrebko - Mary Haines
DOlora Zajick - Nancy Blake
Diana Damrau - Miriam Aarons
Stephanie Blyth - Edith Potter
Nathalie Dessay - Sylvia Fowler
Flicka/Caballe - Flora DeLave
I think it's a grand idea. Who could write the score?
Dear Sugar Mezzo
That was so funny. I am going to steal it if you don't mind.
And Sanford, for what it is worth, you did not sound like you were name dropping at all.
salzburglar,
"pride(s) of Odessa," indeed. Love it (them)!
I know about fashion cause I read the Sunday Times! It's all there. I'm selling subscriptions...Anyone interested?
jatm2063: What is wrong with Slavic harlots? You say it as if it is a bad thing.
Constantine: I actually thought both Treb dresses from Baden^2 were ugly. The gold one was positively awful, though not as vile as Garanca's red monstrosity. Plus the bottle tan look really doesn't suit Trebska, since one of her main appeals (to me at least) is the "slavic" (see? see?) "very white skin with very black hair contrast" thingy.
And that's the end of our fashion news for today.
I am pretty much with Sanford here. And speaking for myself and all the gay men I know, we love fabulous women fabulously dressed, but if they are going to look like the hostess at a Hooters, then they need to have a sense of humor about it. That's why some of us love Cher. Guleghina, however, is not joking when she is unveiling those puppies, and I just don't care for that kind of tastelessness.
Perfidia: Again, what's so wrong with Hooters hostesses? You guys have to be a bit more tolerant...
Being straight I come from a completely different angle, I guess. E.g. Cher I've only been described to me as attractive/elegant by women and/or gay men. All the straight men I know consider her toe-curlingly repulsive. And conversly, though I don't find Guleghina good looking as such (or at all, come to think about it), those "puppies" don't look too shabby to me. And I *love* the word "Kultura" on the upper right hand side of the pic; lovely contrast with the stripping move from La Ghoul. After all strippers always describe themselves as "dancers", definetely "Kultura" therefore :-)
That picture and salzburglar's comment remind me of my favorite aria cues. It's from an English language production of Die Fledermaus.
Act III
* * *
Adele: Can I act? Just take a look at these—I mean—this. (As the orchestra plays the introduction to her aria, Adele removes her cape to reveal the pride and joy of Vienna).
i find cher repulsive -- and i'm a gay man -- but not as repulsive as nicholas cage. and the 2 of them together... mamma mia, shoot me dead!!!!
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