Few things are scarier than a crappy Italian varietà TV show, and a particularly crappy new production, Colpo di Genio ("Stroke Of Genius", which is of course anything but) has a particularly tasty novelty for the opera/ballet fan: a Roberto Bolle impersonator.
Roberto Bolle, The Man of Steel (esp his killer glutes) of la Scala ballet company now has an official impersonator: comedian Teo Teocoli.
Many photos from the show (taken by a sweetest friend while Opera Chic was at La Scala last night) are in this flickr album.
Tragically, among the three "jurors" of the show, who must decide which crappy inventor on the show has invented the crappiest invention (I'm not kidding), there is also la signora Katia Ricciarelli, wonderful soprano (the best Rossini's Stabat Mater ever, possibly the best Falstaff, too), and ex wife of craptastic Italian TV personality Pippo Baudo.