Opening Night at La Scala
December 13, 2012 4:06 PM Subscribe
GlamourFilter: Opening Night at La Scala. Pictures from La Scala's opening nights, dating through the fifties and sixties. (Main story here, slideshow here, those links in Italian, but easy enough to figure out for non-speakers.) Pictures of Callas, Toscanini, Princess Grace, Dick and Liz, and many more, all looking impossibly fab and glamourous. (Via the always informative and entertaining Opera Chic.)
Lovely. Don't trust the dates, though. Guido Cantelli was not alive in 1957.
posted by in278s at 4:21 PM on December 13, 2012
posted by in278s at 4:21 PM on December 13, 2012
How did the ladies sit in a theater chair wearing those large skirts?
posted by Cranberry at 4:33 PM on December 13, 2012
posted by Cranberry at 4:33 PM on December 13, 2012
I mostly came for the Grace Kelly and it looks like everyone else did, too.
(A beautiful set, overall.)
posted by weeyin at 5:08 PM on December 13, 2012
(A beautiful set, overall.)
posted by weeyin at 5:08 PM on December 13, 2012
Well it's not always fab and glamorous. As I previously noted on Mefi, Rachele Gilmore went from her stunning Met debut to La Scala in the same role, with a very different wardrobe. I suppose some might consider this glamorous.
posted by charlie don't surf at 5:19 PM on December 13, 2012
posted by charlie don't surf at 5:19 PM on December 13, 2012
Lovely to see such glamorous people. I was also pleased to see that many of the ladies had folded back the hand of their glove, presumably for eating, drinking or smoking. It's a pet peeve of mine to see women in movies drinking or eating with their gloved hands, as that was considered poor glove etiquette.
posted by SweetTeaAndABiscuit at 8:26 PM on December 13, 2012 [1 favorite]
posted by SweetTeaAndABiscuit at 8:26 PM on December 13, 2012 [1 favorite]
Mama mia! Where are the Google translation links? Momma, how come you talk like that, you no Italian!
posted by Twang at 11:26 PM on December 13, 2012
posted by Twang at 11:26 PM on December 13, 2012
How did the ladies sit in a theater chair wearing those large skirts?
Those ladies would probably all be sitting in the boxes, which have separate chairs that can be moved around. Probably the lesser beings accompanying them had to squash their chairs towards the back of the box.
posted by Azara at 7:13 AM on December 14, 2012 [1 favorite]
Those ladies would probably all be sitting in the boxes, which have separate chairs that can be moved around. Probably the lesser beings accompanying them had to squash their chairs towards the back of the box.
posted by Azara at 7:13 AM on December 14, 2012 [1 favorite]
You're not fooling me, you're just doing this to impress Pallas Athena.
posted by speedlime at 11:10 AM on December 14, 2012 [4 favorites]
posted by speedlime at 11:10 AM on December 14, 2012 [4 favorites]
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