Celeste Zenaida. Why Is This Woman Smiling? Because She Bagged Simon Keenlyside

Congrats to Royal Ballet's Zenaida Yanowsky and bebbedaddy-to-be Simon Keenlyside: they are expecting their first child together and "spending more time" in Wales, where Sir Simon (knighted motu proprio by Opera Chic with due respect to Prince Harry's grandma and to Mr. Brown) happily indulges his hobbies -- zoology, bird watching (Mozart/Schikaneder would pewp their pants with happiness), and planting Welsh bluebells and Welsh daffs, whatever the hell those might be.

(via our favorite operatic Intermezzo)

Comments

[Miss Johnson From London]

Fine singer, middle-aged midriff. Singers: seduce us with your voices. Exhibitionism is not Art. Anyone can strip. ¶ Instead of concocting thousands of laws destructive of national identity, why don't the totalitarians in Brussels at least pretend to justify their existence by writing legislation banning partial and full nudity on the opera stage? The modern world is not wanting for titillation.
It is, however, desperate for examples of the transcendence of the material by what is NOT flesh--isn't this triumph of Music's one reason why opera thrills us so?

[middleagedmezzo]

wow she looks about as flexible as the soon to be new mrs. putin