Opera Chic

Sofia Coppola is all like DON'T HOLD YOUR BREFF

Lovely Opera Chic reader Donna Anna has so graciously pointed us towards this retraction in today's New York Times blurb "No Opera Debut for Sofia Coppola", which states that the planned directing of Montpellier's 2009-10 Manon Lescaut with Roberto Alagna by Sofia Coppola is false false false, and that, "She [Coppola] has no knowledge of nor has she agreed to direct a production there." Opera Chic had reported the curious news here a week ago.

...looks like someone is even flakier than Alagna (it is Coppola). *oh snap* oh no she didn't! omg ok j/k j/k playin'. We teh ♥ Coppole. Coppolas. and ♥ the Alagne. Alagnas.

Sofia Coppola + Roberto Alagna = Manon Lescaut

OMGOMGOMGBREAKING NEWS!!!111OMGOMGOMG

AFP dispatch:

Sofia Coppola is to stage her first opera, Puccini's romantic tragedy "Manon Lescaut", at the Montpellier Opera house in southern France during its 2009-2010 season.

Coppola's cast? Opera Chic's own Roberto Alagna!!!

Roberto don't leave her UbadboyU!!!

I mean y wuld she want 2 work with him? Shell catch teh lamorz! Sofia pleez! Marc Jacobs won't take ur callz anymore and buhbye free swag!

(Sofia photo by Mario Testino for French Vogue)

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A big CIAO to our Swedish friend Gunilla and her readers! Thanks!

Homage to La Diva, or...(Lacombe, I see what you did there!)

So...what teh fack? I was browsing the November 9, 2006 edition of Corriere della Sera Magazine, and saw the Sofia Coppola story, “Icone, ‘La dominatrice di Versailles’: ‘Niente sesso / Sono Sofia Coppola’"...but something between the pages struck me as oddly familiar. Take a look for yourselves:

As the owner of this huge photo-book on Callas, and with my sparkling visual memory, I recalled a former Garofalo/Callas portrait taken in Paris.

The photograph of Sofia Coppola in Corriere is by Brigitte Lacombe, and was posed almost identically as Garofalo’s photo of Callas in the early 1960s from the Hotel Ritz in Paris.

I mean, c'mon...Sofia's pretty cool, but she ain’t no Diva.