WANTED: MARUSKA ALBERTAZZI'S CABBIE

Actress Maruska Albertazzi, one of the two Salomes in the barenaked, nude, naked, Brazilian-waxed, scandalous, pant-pant Salome at Opera di Roma (the other Salome is hawt soprano Francesca Patané), has a (NSFW) blog.

And a few minutes ago she has posted an entry explaining that after tonight's show, she took a cab to go to dinner with her family. And she left a small briefcase in the taxi's trunk. Inside an envelope, there were "personal documents of great importance" and an 8x10 glossy of the actress, naked. Nuda.

Maruska is asking the cabbie to kindly bring back the documents.

He can keep the photo.

If said, hopefully non-horny taxi driver reads Opera Chic, we are happy to join the kind Miss Albertazzi in requesting he please brings back the documents.

And if he does keep the photo, would he please scan it and send a nice hi-res file to Opera Chic's e-mail addy? THX

Comments

[Crew Mantle]

One can only have sympathy for Miss Albertazzi. Reduced to accepting assignments where she must appear unclothed; what are her parents friends and relations to think? I am certain her mind must be rather occupied with this sad and difficult state of affairs so as to forget her personal belongings. To think the Rome Opera has sufficient funds for only one body stocking for Miss Patane. DO they care nothing about the reputation of the modest Miss Albertazzi? One can only assume from this, the slender means on which opera is mounted in Rome today!

If it is of any consolation to Miss Albertazzi, I am mortified on her behalf.

[Opera Chic]

awwww come on, she's cool: Opera Chic is staunchly pro-waxing, and nudity's cool, too, at least in "Salome". On the other hand, it's body stockings that OC finds disagreeable, for "Salome". Albertazzi's readiness to go the Full Monty is true to script -- no nylon body stockings 2,000 years ago! She gets an A in history and another A in Stanislavksy Method from Opera Chic. I mean, there's no Salome in a Burberry raincoat.

[Crew Mantle]

I personally admire the courage of those ladies who are slaves to a good close waxing. Perhaps Miss Albertazzi is a most modern thinking woman who has no qualms about realism in opera. But the next time Opera Chic desireth a buck naked Salome, she considers the great interpretation of later Mme. Caballe.... Whom I daresay used several extra veils....

Some things in opera as in life, are better left to the imagination.

[Opera Chic]

ah, Caballe's Salome, the dance of the 77 veils (borrowing Voigt's joke actually)... CM, a man of your exquisite taste understands better than anybody that, as a partly visual art, opera is not helped by a larger, older woman playing Salome (Strauss himself wanted a barely legal slutty Salome, naked and with Brunnhilde's voice-- good luck with THAT!). Caballé (whom OC loves to bits and pieces)never had the choice, but another singer, Voigt, given the choice, when she lost the weight did a less clothed, more realistic Salome, didn't she?

Tha awesome Madame Kabaivanska retired from doing Butterfly not because her voice was shot but because she admitted she had gotten too old for the part and felt uncomfortable.

and baritones who are not obese do wear fat suits for Falstaff, rite?
:)

[Crew Mantle]

'a barely legal slutty Salome, naked and with Brunnhilde's voice'

Where is she???

I dunno... I kinda only like women boned either on the beach, in the shower working up a lather, or painting walls....

Call me crazy but great opera is a vocal experience enjoyed best with ones eyes closed. That aside, I still have an issue with the Rome Opera houses' obviously tiny wardrobe budget....how come Miss Albertazzi wasn't even entitled to a few bronze pasties? Did they at least cover the cost of her Brazilian wax?

(pasties I'm sure Opera Chic would agree IS period)

[fignaz]

I guess we should all be glad that Oscar Wilde didn't follow through on his original intention to have Salome dance on her hands-- something which he maintained was historically accurate. Birgit Nilsson.... dancing on her hands... The horror... The horror..... ;-)