Ghastliest classical cover of 2012?

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1. Rosana Martins says:

   November 30, 2012 at 2:46 pm

   This must be the 1st Prize winner of the worst cover ever!
2. Martin Anderson says:

   November 30, 2012 at 2:48 pm

   No wonder the border guards tried to stop him getting into Germany!
3. ed says:

   November 30, 2012 at 2:49 pm

   They’ve got to be kidding!! Is this cover “conceptual art” (abstraction be damned) or “post-expressionist”? Or maybe Rinaldo is in the process of getting his alto castratoed? Or maybe it’s a new ballet lift?
4. ElizabethW says:

   November 30, 2012 at 2:54 pm

   Ick.
5. Janis says:

   November 30, 2012 at 3:29 pm

   Hee-hee! He posted this in his FB. He was like, “I swear I didn’t see this …” The general response was a sort of George Takei quality, “Oh MY.”
6. Janis says:

   November 30, 2012 at 6:05 pm

   And frankly … you know, I’d like to see a collection of similar “damsel in distress threatened in freaky way” covers from opera. I tend to smirk when a graphic cliche is suddenly recognized as being patently ridiculous only when a man is put in the place usually occupied by a woman, although I know that observations like this as so painfully unfashionable nowdays …
7. RM-O says:

   November 30, 2012 at 8:52 pm

   Love the diamond on the finger! Is that real?
8. Ichtrinkkeinwein says:

   November 30, 2012 at 10:05 pm

   This is 11 years old. The production has traveled during that time, to Zurich among other places.

   It is listed as “Rinaldo (2012)” on Amazon because that site lists *everything* with the current year until and unless: (A) someone actively informs it of the correct year; and (B) its staff can verify the correction, such as by looking on the back of the packaging.
9. Ichtrinkkeinwein says:

   November 30, 2012 at 10:15 pm

   That correction has been made on Amazon.co.uk but not on Amazon.com, in the case of this particular title. See http://www.amazon.com/Rinaldo-Handel/dp/B009IF138Q/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1354313565&sr=8-5&keywords=rinaldo
10. José Bergher says:

    November 30, 2012 at 11:23 pm

    Nothing beats the cover of the recording of Ricky Strauss’ “Salome,” with Birgit Nilsson’s face.

    • Peter - a different Peter from the other Peter says:

      December 2, 2012 at 12:03 am

      Pretty bad indeed – looks like a cross between the shroud of Turin and the elephant man. With a solitary eye pasted at the bottom of the picture. That is really odd.
    • Tim Durham says:

      December 3, 2012 at 5:44 pm

      Couldn’t agree more – the Nilsson/Salome cover the worst of all time!!
11. Alison says:

    December 1, 2012 at 6:55 am

    Eww.
12. Martial says:

    December 1, 2012 at 8:51 pm

    Guys, please show the DVD cover above to Riccardo Muti for his opinion…..
13. Petros Linardos says:

    December 2, 2012 at 4:25 am

    Worthy of a Eurotrash production.
14. The Maltese Falcon says:

    December 2, 2012 at 8:55 pm

    Anyways it don’t beat the lady who appeared with a violin and nuffink else!