Last December 7, when we saw Angela Merkel at la Scala's premiere of Tristan, she was dressed more conservatively; the other night in Oslo, though, at the inauguration of the new opera house we blogged about last week, Big Angela chose to flaunt some serious bewbage: in the AFP photo above, Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg with Scandinavian coolness manages not to ogle while La Merkel shows the operagoing Oslo peeps some serious Teutonic strength.
It's indeed obvious that Otto von Bismarck never would have done this. Thankfully, we add.
The German papers we skinned online this morning seem to be at the very least ambivalent. La Angela is rightly baffled. Unlike the Puritanical German press, as a pro-opera, pro-women, pro-bewbs blog, we happily endorse the new l00k.
Now she just needs to lose the bowl cut and we're defintely getting somewhere.
Pop-up picture below for the more scientifically minded readers:
Not that anybody cares at this point, but, bewbs aside, the main operatic attraction at the inauguration was Maria Guleghina: