Playboy Magazine *Discovers* Opera Stars

One of our more deranged readers once asked us to create an "Opera MILF" website as a tribute to the female hawtness of singers and musicians.

Opera Chic declined.

He must have found more receptive ears at Playboy magazine. Link **NSFW**, obvs.

"Which classical babe do you think is the sexiest? Choose your favorite and click on the “SUBMIT” button at the bottom of the page!"

Seriously. "Too Hot To Handel: The Sexiest Babes Of Classical Music".

If you have to vote, vote for Hahn. That's what we're doing early and often.

She's a camgirl, after all.

Here's a compilation of those who are browsing from work. Click for bigger/more legible:

 

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Comments

[A Real Cad]

I can't believe Netrebko is in fifth place.

[Madama Flutterbye]

I can't believe Angela hasn't made the cut. She must be throwing a fit to her agent right about now, especially after all that weight she lost.

[number five alive]

Sarah Coburn is the only one who remotely looks like Playboy material. The rest are too nerdy, young, or old.

[Tanya]

Has anyone actually read the writeups? They are insulting, at best. And what's up with the last girl, Jennifer Frauschi, being the only one without a professional headshot?

I can think of 20 hotter singers than the girls on this list anyway!

[Jimmy James]

So when can we expect Playgirls' list of the hottest MEN of the classical world? I can give them a hand with the list if need be.

[Baritone Fink]

Oh my! These descriptions! The one for Mutter is pretty tasteless. And from now on, Netrebko will be referred to as the soprano who holds the microphone between her tits! Here are my favorites:

->Anna Netrebko: Superstar soprano who claimed her voice is aided by “the microphone between my tits!”

->Hilary Hahn: If classical music needs its sexy librarian, we recommend Hahn for duty in the stacks.

->Anne-Sophie Mutter: later she married Academy Award-winning composer André Previn and premiered his Hollywood-lite Violin Concerto. They’re divorced now, so maybe we can expect more daring things from her again.

->Julia Fischer: Last time we saw Fischer, we counted four inches of cleavage from our spot in the balcony.

[stickles]

Well, I suppose these musicians and their agents agreed to have this writeup and their pictures shown on playboy? Don't have much else to say, but I had a chuckle about the bit on Fischer. I did witness just that from the balcony last time she was in Chicago with St. Petersburg and uncle Yuri. To a heterosexual man, it was distracting to say the least. But to her credit, I was enthralled by the unparalleled sweetness in the tone of her violin.

[Bobik]

All is wrong. My favourite is Elina Garanča.

[Bill Philin-Ploplis]

Unfortunately, Ms. De Niese impressed the Chicago critics last season as Cleopatra only with her physique and ability to jiggle. Her trills were, at best, slushy.

[R.A.D. Stainforth]

I am very surprised that Dame Evelyn Glennie is not on the list.

[ellie]

Mutter and not Fleming? And what about Grimaud, Frittoli, or that oh so sexy Elina Garanca (lol)? Strange choices for a magazine that has such a taste for sleaze!

[Carruthers]

Great idea but can't believe they left Venezuelan pianist Vanessa Perez out of this list!!!

[Miss Johnson From London]

But this is old hat--Charlotte Moorman was playing her cello
while exposing her breasts forty years ago. There is nothing
new under the sun (though some of our parts may have been less
exposed to it than others).

[dino]

Netrebko is the obvious choice, but I've always had an atttraction for Jennifer.

And, where is Sarah Chang?

[Bruce Hembd]

Heh heh - my own fictitious contribution to the vote. Venus von Hilf.

http://www.horndogblog.com/2008/09/rock-me-amadeus.html

[roilCall]

This is so insulting! I'm sure that the industry of classical and opera music is just like the industry of any other kind of music (i mean, you have a higher possibility being found if you're blond and netrebko-like) but I've always hoped that under the cover of "sophistication" and culture, it can't be that bad -or evident. THIS is disappointing.
Also, if I were any of them, I would so sue for being exposed and insulted like that. It's almost like calling you a *slut*! Although, I don't think any of these "artists" (?) really care, in any case they've provoked it.
But it's so unfair! Classical music (opera included) should not be represented by people of such low class and tendencies to act like celebrities (celebrity as in Paris Hilton), because it doesn't deserve it. It's something so much more above all this...

Sorry if I sound misanthrope... but music is a gift from heaven, it shouldn't be treated that way...