Spanish daily El Pais blasted the marketing of classical music artists today, in a commentary that notices how, as of now, "one needs to be able to sing or play an instrument, and then it helps if one is good-looking". Among the examples of heavily-hyped (because of their unusual good looks) artists they mention Danielle De Niese (photo above), Measha Bruggergosman, Lang Lang.
"But the problem will arise when the priorities change: when artists will have to be pretty, and then, they will also need to be able to sing or play the piano. This new tendency has the complicity of the new generations, conscious that a pretty appearance can as much as a high C or a complicated concert for violin".
The paper also shanks Rolando Villazon, who "covers his artistic limitations with a dangerous barrage of public relations".