Remember When You Couldn't Take Your Lustful Eyes Off.....

[bcohen7719]

....Rudolph Nureyev?

 

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[orbital sander]

uhhh... I wasn't born yet...at least for this broadcast...

 

Nice high cheek bones however...

[leigh.bess.toad]

I was very young at the time of Nureyev's defection and never really a big ballet afficianado. But it was easy to see the brilliance he had as a dancer. And he was so incredibly good looking. And the great love of his life, Erik Bruhn was gorgeous too.

 

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/06/Bruhn-Giselle_film.jpg

 

But in a way, I put a contemporary of his in the opera world in a similar place. Gorgeous man. Enormous talent. Franco Corelli

 

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And if I'm not mistaken, the lady in the early part of the clip is Magda Olivero, one of the great divas of the 20th century. And at 101 years old now, I lay odds she can still outsing half the sopranos working on the stage today.

[Zapped]

I went to Juilliard for a while, and the School of American Ballet was in the same building. I rode in the elevator with Baryshnikov, and a friend said he'd been for a ride (just in the elevator) with Nureyev. N was gorgeous back in the day. And I used to have a very hot shirtless poster of B in my room. Ah.

[Diverdan]

Yes, I have very fond memories of both Nureyev and Baryshnikov, and met both of them in person. Both had enormous talent, and not sure any of the more recent male ballet stars are their equal. What you see, by the way is real, and not enhanced, if you know what I mean.

[+ Charlie]

As I think I have mentioned here before, I danced with Nureyev once--in a disco, not in "Swan Lake". He was so intensely absorbed in his own physical performance that I might as well have been dancing with myself.

[+ Charlie]

I was very young at the time of Nureyev's defection and never really a big ballet afficianado. But it was easy to see the brilliance he had as a dancer. And he was so incredibly good looking. And the great love of his life, Erik Bruhn was gorgeous too.

 

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/06/Bruhn-Giselle_film.jpg

 

But in a way, I put a contemporary of his in the opera world in a similar place. Gorgeous man. Enormous talent. Franco Corelli

 

[video=youtube;TColIyZLpGE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TColIyZLpGE&feature=related

 

And if I'm not mistaken, the lady in the early part of the clip is Magda Olivero, one of the great divas of the 20th century. And at 101 years old now, I lay odds she can still outsing half the sopranos working on the stage today.

 

I think you are correct in identifying the lady as Magda Olivero. If I could go back in time and watch one diva in her prime, it would probably be Olivero.

 

Corelli, IMHO, was much sexier than Nureyev--he was more conventionally handsome, and taller than Nureyev--but he was apparently just as neurotic.