We're getting "Interview with a Vampire" vibes from Opera Australia's new Manon Lescaut, opening on July 16. It happens. Director Gale Edwards serves up the Puccini heroine as an irresistible sacrifice for Lescaut...or should we say ~Lestat~? With our leading hunk Lescaut as Teddy Tahu Rhodes, Cheryl Barker sings Manon and Jorge López Yáñez sings Des Grieux. López Yáñez rules...he made a mariachi CD! How bad a$$ is that?
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(TTR goes for the jugular of Cheryl Barker)
Click the link below for more production shots!
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LOL--that jugular shot is hilarious!
Posted by: Amber | July 15, 2009 at 02:06 PM
The grandmother of the modern push up bra.
Posted by: A Real Cad | July 15, 2009 at 03:24 PM
Since bewbs (large, extra-large or not, no matter) don't, can't, will never sing, let us not forget that in the world of sopranos there is only ONE and only ONE Cheryl to reckon. And she doesn't Bark.
Posted by: Marshie | July 15, 2009 at 05:06 PM
Down Under should be renamed Up Above.
Posted by: Miss Johnson From London | July 15, 2009 at 06:06 PM
Love these costumes.
Posted by: Mandi | July 15, 2009 at 06:24 PM
The breasts of the woman in the orange dress are a by- product of (the) silicon (valley)?
They look as if they are little bags of plastic ready to burst!
Posted by: Carina | July 15, 2009 at 09:52 PM
The costumes appear fabulously wonderful. Wish Americans would let bewbs happen in the USA, although I SWEAR the three ladies and the queen of the night were topless at a production I saw in the early or mid-70s in Santa Fe..sort of Las Vegas topless. And so was Papagena. I can't remember what year that was. I was enthralled with that production.
Posted by: Lou Ann D. | July 16, 2009 at 05:38 AM
Listen Carina, if it's breasts we're talking, as the husband of the woman the orange dress I can assure you on every level and cup size that they are all-natural, unenhanced and spectacular - just like the rest of her! Your comment has the tone of a disgruntled A cupper.
Posted by: SCM | July 16, 2009 at 06:39 AM
SCM, your wife looks like Kirsten Dunst!
Posted by: Palo | July 16, 2009 at 07:12 AM
SCM - is that orange dress as painful as it looks?
Posted by: Darla | July 17, 2009 at 02:49 AM
The bewbs look all-natural to me! We opera singers are allowed to have natural bodies, where movie stars are not. You tell 'em, SCM!
Posted by: Amber | July 17, 2009 at 10:09 AM
as a colleague of the orange - dressed beauty I can attest , along with her also yummy hubby, that the aforementioned manon mammaries are real and posessed of full and articulated motion! the audience was hard pressed to keep an eye on the main action. of course our esteemed director directed us to , when acting in an operatic fashion, employ slow-mo..so as to not pull focus. well...we have a problem houston!!!!!
Posted by: tommy | July 19, 2009 at 02:12 PM
P.S. noone has mentioned the gorgeous men of the chorus, bald-capped and salivating over gorgeous ms. barker in act 2...some of them are, may i say stacked as well...
Posted by: tommy | July 19, 2009 at 02:14 PM
Saw the production Manon Lescaut at the Opera House Monday night - superb evening - could not have been bettered - Baker and Jorge López Yáñez such beautiful voices together and Tahu Rhodes was also amazing - but it was the two leads who stole the show - do do see it if it comes to your city
Posted by: John Wareing | August 13, 2009 at 08:44 AM