Worst -Dressed Singers at the James Levine Gala

• Jane Eaglen : "She looks like a shut-in."
  
  
• Sam Ramey : "Is that a new Lily Tomlin character?"
  
  
• June Anderson : "No way a Butterfly would ever emerge from that cocoon."
  
  
• The Ladies of the Chorus: 'Give those $87.50 beaded tops back to the Sweet Adelines where they came from."
  
  
• Gwyneth Jones: "That dress was tacky even when it was new in 1974."
  
  
• Maria Ewing: "Direct from her smash engagement at Rainbow and Stars in It's Delightful, It's Delicious, It's De-Gershwin! "
  
  
• The Alagnas: "This isn't the Junior Prom."
  
  
• Waltraud Meier: "A pink flowered bouffant with a box-pleated contrast peplum? What is this, Female on the Beach? "
  
  
• Ruth Ann Swenson: "Miss Wisconsin 1976"
  
  
• Renee Fleming: "Jessica Rabbit does Vanessa "