Greece has commissioned a centennial bronze statue of the soprano to stand at the foot of the Acropolis, no less.
Early responses are unflattering – ‘a replica of an Oscar’ is one, ‘Gandhi in heels’ another.
Surely they could have tried harder.
There is no room for Sir Simon Rattle…
The Vienna Philharmonic has just awarded honorary membership…
The summers season, rolled out today, shows welcome…
Latest leaps on the merry-go-round: – Vasily Petrenko…
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Nearly as bad as the ghastly one put up this year of Princess Diana in London!
Look around at recent attempts to ‘honour’ people from the arts to football and ask yourself why the level is so eye-watering abysmal. I wish I knew.
Don’t they normally make a plaster cast before pouring the bronze?
That would have been the time to intervene.
It does not look like her!
Makes me think of the sort of image that used to be employed in girls’ comics for Pocahontas.
Exactly! Spot on!!
Is that a mime artist?
Add a few feathers and that will be a cigar store Indian.
My favorite diva Edita Gruberova deserves a statue too.