ok ok, fine whatevs....she's like 11 months pregnant and it's the ~summer~. We've *been* there (minus that whole weird "with fetus" part). But we discovered that our favorite pregnant Russian soprano pulled an unforgivable sartorial faux-pas! *gasps*
Digging through recent photos, we came across pictures of Trebs just _one week ago_ at the June 21, 2008 Gala Ball for Valery Gergiev's White Nights Festival of the St. Petersburg Mariinsky Theatre. There she was, in St. Petersburg @ the Catherine Palace, wearing the same exact dress that she wore for last night's outdoor concert gala @ Vienna's Schloss Schönbrunn (with the same headband/hairstyle, too). C4urselvs teh horrar:
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Just to refresh your memory, here was Netrebko last night in Vienna...hmmmm:
Anna, honey, c'mon. we seened it all on teh intarwebz. You're in J.Lo league...you could buy $700 cashmere blankets for your baby and $300 suede play-mats if you want. And gawd knows this isn't gonna be your first pregnancy. Don't pull a Kathy Battle!
Also in attendance @ Catherine Palace was, obvs, Gergiev. But a treat was Rene Pape, who posed with Russian soprano Anastasia Kalagina, a soloist at the theatre since 2007, who won this year's "Montblanc New Voices Award".
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Gergiev on his tiny phone...it's smaller than his ear! Can u hear me??