Naked Performers/Phallic Musical Instruments/Royal Opera House, etc...You Fill in the Rest of the Puns

The Royal Opera House resorts to the oldest trick in the book: Secks Sells. By launching their 2009 Charity Calendar, featuring tastefully posed ROH artists & staff in the buff, they hope to raise lots of pounds sterling for Macmillan Cancer Support.

You can order yours via the Royal Opera House shop for £10.00, but shipping starts on November 10.

Those who bared it all included Royal Ballet dancers Sian Murphy, Catherine Ladd & Eric Underwood; ROH orchestra members principal harpist Emma Granger & violinist Caroline Clarke; ROH tenor Charles Castronovo; ROH actor and acrobat Mark Skipper; and ROH staffer Cherly Knight.

We're gonna save all the allusions and couched jokes...I mean, it's just too easy...this stuff writes itself. So, who wants secksy time with the ROH?

Comments

[CrewMantle]

Indeed soft porn sells...

But I prefer the Berlin Opera's crossover use of a top model(a glamourous profession in its own right)in advertisements to motivate new adherents.

Sex is old school marketing, while the crossover use of leading models owns definitive uptown 'buzz'.

[Coloratura Tempura]

The pool guy is totally ripped!

[anna fan-na]

I'm with Crew Mantle. I much more preferred the Berlin Opera's campaign. Although the Royal Opera did a nice job, there still remains a cheesy, beefcake feeling to this. The soft lighting, the warm glows, and the crushed red satins that drape them in every photoshoot is just too overboard with a soft-porn vibe. It's such a turn off. It's not edgy or interesting in the least.

That said, the article mentions that every single person who contributed to the photoshoot was not paid, and it sort of shows. Since they're doing something so shocking and daring, they should have consulted with professionals to give them an edge.

I like my naked art a little more, well, artsy. Anyway, good luck to them selling out the calendar, I know it goes to a good cause.

[Maria]

The nude truth is that this calendar has nothing to do with art or charity. It has to do with more money; just that!

[infant]

AH... WHEN ONE IS DESPERATE "ANYTHING GOES"

[Ian]

Way to be 10 years behind the times, ROH. When every second Christian Women's Association and Woppingham Business Owners Association has released a skin calendar, it's not really exciting anymore.

That said, why hello man-in-pool (Mark Skipper?)

[Miss Johnson From London]

Many years ago, a naughty minded friend laughed uproariously
at the thought of "improving" the Met's meet-the-roster book (which provided repertoire and place of birth information next to the photograph of the singer) by replacing the face shot with a likeness of each singer's, well, ahem, not their vocal organs. To come to OC's site today and have to jump back from the splash made by the ROH flinging its reputation as a serious opera house into the sewer has frightened me dreadfully. What's next? Decks of playing cards decorated with images of conductors "auditioning" aspiring young mezzos? Sex toys sold in opera house gift shops? (Salesperson: "May I suggest the Ezio Pinza?") Ulrica, take your frickin' crystal ball back. All I can see in it is non-stop MTV.

[GtelloZ]

What a stupid easy and mediocre decision!! i agree with the rest, imagination gives a thousand times more profits than soft porn.

[Musical Instruments Keyboard]

I newly heard this kind of music stuff. ROH, will this post actually some kinda great but I don't really agree with the naked performers. I don't want to see musical performers in naked. Aside from this musical instruments they perform, is there any Musical Instruments Keyboard. I wanted to have some idea on this musical instrument too.

[russell Jones]

Not only does it sound good it looks good too.

Music for the ears and candy for the eyes