Too curvy for opera? Translation, you won’t fit into this Prada girl!
01/1/10
Attila the Hun
by Christie Connolley
Really, you are just too hefty to portray a Hun, yes, as in Attila the Hun. His entourage was, you know, so svelte, slim, they could work a sample size down the runway and back.
Apparently, that is the perspective of Muiccia Prada who is collaborating with the Metropolitan Opera for it’s new production of Verdi’s Attila. Reportedly, Prada complained that the extras (unclear if this refers to the supers or the ladies of the chorus) are too curvy to don her costly accoutrement for the stage and has requested thinner replacements.
Love it! Need more of this in my life!
The Met is on the verge of having an elitist army of Natalie Dessay’s running around. Oh well!!! Their loss!
I’d always assumed the Met wanted singers. Huh.
I’d like to see some of those skinny hussies hit those notes
Ugh what is it with fashion people and bone-thin women. I don’t see the appeal in a real-life zombie XP
Someone needs to tell Muiccia where she can stick her Prada’s.
The reviews of Atilla weren’t full of praise for the sets or the costumes, and the latter were described as ” run of the mill items of leather,fur and metal”. How svelte does one have to be to don something like that? Can you even look thin in anything made of those items? It’s time Peter Gelb stopped spending money the Met doesn’t have on ridiculous productions with high-priced designers and concentrated on filling those empty seats in the house.