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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 […]

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Sans amis gais

A full account of “A Tribute to Beverly Sills” may be found at PlaybillArts though, curiously, the “photo journal” (from which this image was yoincked, and which includes a look at la Netrebko’s more tasteful garb) seems to have vanished into the ether.

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