According to the booklet of the new recording of La Sonnambula, with Cecilia Bartoli (La Ceci) and Juan Diego Flórez, the ethereal girl posing like an Olympian goddess, is actually Cecilia Bartoli.
Herself.
Currently.
WTF?
Herself.
Currently.
WTF?
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Parsi, first off, Bartoli has lost a lot of weight in the last few years and seems to have toned lots. However, she's a big girl, and her upper body remains big and looks big albeit really toned and muscular. Check the youtube video of her Zurich Semele. It also seems she's been gaining and losing a lot in the last couple of years, but overall she's watching where she's going. Now the picture from the Sonnambula recording is clearly retouched. To begin with, the camera angle they chose is typical of photographers who want to show that big girls look less big. Plus they can always play around with Photoshop to make her look thinner. An example off the top of my head: in an article on modern Greek women, dieting, and changes in mentalities and aesthetics I read by the Greek-American journalist Melia Tatakis, there was a funny series of retouched photos of Praxiteles' Knidian Aphrodite. They started from the real statue which shows a voluptuous woman, the standard of beauty in the 4th century BC, then show the same statue thinner, then thinner, and eventually anorexic. All thanks to Photoshop!
και δεν μπορεί απλά να έκοψε τα σουβλάκια??? αμέσως photoshop...
Des to post ths OperaChic apo ta Echo Klassik Awards proxtes k pes mou esy an ta ekopse ta souvlakia...
Here's what she looks like negligee:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TypfBq5ADZ0
Estoy de acuerdo contigo. El Photoshop hace milagros. También opino como tu "Juan Diego Flórez for president"
Un abrazo
Saw La Ceci last month and though she has lost weight and looks wonderful I'm pretty sure this is an example of photoshop and photographers' tricks at its best. Still who cares - she sings like an angel.
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