O dieu! que de bijoux!

And people say that in olden days singers used more chest! Ha, says La Cieca. Ha!

(At the Met 125th Anniversary Gala, Angela Gheorghiu models a “replica” of Christine Nilsson‘s Marguerite costume. Nilsson photo from the Met archives; Gheorghiu photo by Ken Howard.)

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