Opera Chic

Hall of Fame: Rebecca And Her Dad Do "The Twelfth Night"

Opera Chic girl crush Rebecca Hall is working with her dad Sir Peter (her mom's Maria Ewing) on the London stage (above, the front page of today's The Times). According to The Daily Telegraph::

...I don’t think I have ever seen a Twelfth Night that made the text clearer or its bittersweet mixture of laughter and pain more apparent. Rebecca Hall, willowy, sexy and combining sadness with a lovely wit and warmth, is one of the finest Violas I have seen and at moments of ardent love and hope she seems to glow. The scene in which she is reunited with her twin brother, Sebastian, is overpoweringly moving.

Glam Hollywood Style for an Opera Singer's Daughter

Why do we like Rebecca Hall so much? Aside from intelligently charting out her nascent acting career (she was Vicky in Woody Allen's Vicky Cristina Barcelona, and had roles in Frost/Nixon and Dorian Gray), the English actress' mother is Maria Ewing, American soprano (at times mezzo) who made her Metropolitan Opera debut in 1976 in Le Nozze and went on to have an international career. In the clip below, Ewing interprets the teen drama queen and takes it all off in the Dance of the Seven Veils in a production directed by first husband, Peter Hall. NSFW, obviously. Honey, what mommy was doing was art. 

Above, London-born actress Hall was on the red carpet during the Venice Film Festival's premiere of "The Town" in an emerald crepe de chine gown from French design house Vionnet's Spring 2011 collection. Rebecca shares "The Town" spotlight with co-stars Ben Affleck and Jon Hamm, Affleck's new Beantown cops and robbers thriller done in the whole charming Affleckian formula.