Too Hot to Handel!
To answer the question of what calendar be gracing the walls of auto mechanics from Salzburg to Florence in 2009, the stars of London’s 280-year-old Royal Opera House have stripped totally nude for a new charity calendar.
Following the example of the British women’s club played by Helen Mirren, et al in the 2003 comedy Calendar Girls, the sexy sopranos stripped to the skin in support of the British organization Macmillan Cancer Support.
Not since The Ring Cycle debuted at Bayreuth Festspielhause in 1876 has opera been so hot, hot, hot!
The naked opera babes include ballet shoe mistress Catherine Ladd, principal harpist Emma Granger and violinist Caroline Clarke, and blonde ballet dancer Sian Murphy.
So, to all the mamtastic mezzo-sopranas and curvaceous contraltos waiting to take off their clothes on stage, remember what Mozart said: “Cosi fan tutte!”
