This is my favourite horrible ballet album cover – truly wonderful! I'm searching for others; any suggestions welcome.
Most ballet music discs are, lets face it, kitsch. Wooden nutcrackers, snowflakes, photos of ballerinas and swans. But some are so gloriously awful that they're great. I'm starting a collection…
Graham Spicer is a writer, director and photographer in Milan, blogging (under the name ‘Gramilano') about dance, opera, music and photography for people “who are a bit like me and like some of the things I like”. He was a regular columnist for Opera Now magazine and wrote for the BBC until transferring to Italy.
His scribblings have appeared in various publications from Woman's Weekly to Gay Times, and he wrote the ‘Danza in Italia' column for Dancing Times magazine.
These are wonderfully bad. I will now go searching in my collection but I don’t think I’ve got anything that matches these
Come on, I’m sure if you really dig deep you’ll find something! The problem is that most are just boring – opera cds are much more interesting. Good hunting… and thanks!