Leg show
Today’s gossip riddle: what does the Met’s upcoming Mary Zimmerman production of Rossini’s Armida have in common with the above-referenced classic of cheesy 1950s science fiction?
Cher Public
- Camille: Thank you and Joan very very much. Tonight I am going “pre-code 221; and watching RAIN! I am... 2:38 PM
- Clita del Toro: Cammie dear, you can always buy a life’s supply of Swiffers (which I love) from Harriet... 2:23 PM
- tannengrin: 90th floor? Tower of Babel? Nebuchadnezzar? Nabucco? httpv://www.youtub e.com/watch?v=k... 2:19 PM
- Buster: Upcoming: the Salome of Mireille Delunsch! Singing it, not directing it. She will direct Dialogues des... 2:05 PM
- Clita del Toro: Right but I bet their executives are still giving money to anti-gay causes! I will do some... 1:59 PM
- Camille: Salomanda, Thinking now that you are a pretty sharp cookie as my husband agrees with you on every point... 1:58 PM
- Henry Holland: please keep in mind I live in an operatic wasteland, commonly referred to as L.A., and I’ve... 1:54 PM
- tatiana: Not for me–I have Daniels/Domingo/Mi lnes and heard the other one in the House . . . no, thank you,... 1:46 PM
colleagues
- A Liberal's Libretto
- AndrewAndJoshua
- Barihunks
- Cafeteria Rusticana
- Capital New York
- Civic Center
- Counter Critic
- Daniel Stephen Johnson
- Family Circle
- Handelmania
- Hugo Alvarez Domínguez
- Intermezzo
- ionarts
- Iron Tongue of Midnight
- Jumping Clapping Man
- Likely Impossibilites
- Mass Culture Mozart
- My Favorite Intermissions
- New York Post
- Opera Arts
- Opera Bouffe
- Opera Cake
- Opera Fresh
- Opera Rocks
- Opera Tales
- Opera Teen
- Operacast
- Operavision
- Out West Arts
- pArts
- Poison Ivy's Wall of Text
- Sandow
- SFCV
- Superconductor
- The Classical Beat
- The Classical Review
- The Opera Tattler
- Una butaca en el paraiso
- Vilane fille
- Wenarto
- Willy or Won’t He?
- Wo bleibt Elektra?
- WQX-Aria
- Yankeediva
- Zachary Woolfe
131 comments
Today's Events
Upcoming Events
Chats
- May 19 at 1:00 PM: I Capuleti e i Montecchi (webcast from Bavarian State Opera)
La Casa della Cieca →
Topics
- anna anna anna
- barihunk
- bel canto
- blind item
- blog bloggity blog
- broadcast
- camp
- cancellation
- chat
- cher public
- contest
- critic
- diva
- dvd
- filth
- gala
- gay gay gay gay gay
- happy birthday
- hd
- jj
- l'evasiva
- la cieca ci guarda
- la scoopenda
- maestro levine
- man of steel
- mp3
- need you ask?
- new york post
- new york times
- nyco
- our own
- our own jj
- peter gelb is...
- regie
- review
- sad
- the met
- unnatural acts of opera
- wagner
- youtube
Hopefully Zsa Zsa Gabor.
“Indescribable Terrors”?
Bad diva masks and big boobs?
“I HATE Zat Qveen!!!” – Renee like Callas with “Il Palco Funesto” directed to Ghiringelli’s box at the opening night of “Il Pirata” at La Scala will declaim that line with an imperious gesture at La Cieca who will be quivering in her couture and Manolo Blahnik heels in her orchestra seat at the prima.
All the girls are wearing mini-dresses and heels?
Dreckitude (hat tip to Andre Leon Talley).
One can only hope little Renecita won’t come out in flesh-colored tights with a black (or yellow, depending on the wig department) triangle in just the right spot. One never knows with Zimmerman.
Oh Conchita, thank god I read your post after my lunch.
Good one, Pelleas.
An additional clue (or rather, a restatement of the same clue) may be found in this video:
It should be noted (not a clue) that La Gabor follows one of the Prime Directives of the Diva, i.e., “Always bring your own costumes.”
I do hope it is the costumes, and not the aimlessly- milling-about-while-the-masked-villainess-destroys-the-earth-at-a-tediously-slow-pace part.