Nina Lawson 1926-2008
Legendary Metropolitan Opera wig mistress Nina Lawson died last week at the age of 82. Above, a sample of Ms. Lawson’s coiffure for Joan Sutherland‘s first Met Norma at the peak of the Big Diva Hair era, circa 1970. [via NYT]
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I believe it is a halo.
GASP!
I just realized that I DID post that question before, and it wasn’t put up!
Cieca, did you REDACT me?
(tears streaming down face)
Actually it was an Emanuel Ungaro hat. I remember it well (the cover, that is). I was a Rolling Stones loving, Jean Shrimpton adoring teenaged queen, a loving it!
The makeup used om Sutherland is no different to some of the’get-up’ used for Birgit Nilsson and others in some of those 60′s and 70′s Wagnerian productions. Where have some of the contributors been, lately?
I LOVE this look. Wasn’t Joanie approached by Fellini to be in La Dolce Vita during her beehive redhead days?
Wonder who designed her costume on the Esclarmonde box set cover. I’ve never sacrificed my LPs to the CDs because the big picture is so wonderful.
Per the Esclarmonde costume, Beni Montrasor, perhaps?
Lizard: According to Dame Joan’s autobiograpy, her Montresor costumes for Esclarmonde turned out badly and so she had Barbara Matera run up a set of frocks to wear instead.
Probably, for the San Francisco production in 1974. It doesn’t say, though. Now I refuse to believe that Esclarmonde is just camp – it teems with great, if pseudo-Wagnerian melodies. Massenet was a genius harnessed to the hyper-kitsch. If he’d done more than just ‘Scenes’ in the orchestral sphere, he’d have been hailed, surely.
Oh, I just overlapped with La Cieca’s reply – thank you.
Actually, it can hardly be called a frock – more like a Byzantine suit of armour for a princess. How glorious.