A pianist on the red carpet

A pianist on the red carpet

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norman lebrecht

September 15, 2022

Khatia Buniatishvili did her best to steal the limelight at the Venice Film Festival.

Watch here.

 

Comments

  • Tamino says:

    The lady is trying to impress a bit too much with secondary assets, professionally speaking. It has a paradox effect for me. Less interesting, not more.
    Of course she is a very beautiful woman.

    • Concertgebouw79 says:

      Today there are many more women pianist more talented who don’t play much strongly like her.

    • M McAlpine says:

      I can’t see the problem in a good looking woman posing for photographs. Maybe if she was less photogenic she would automatically play better?

    • Daine B says:

      That could be a good way to attract new audience that would then go to a “classical” concert just because they have admired her in their own social environment. We need all we can find as unfamiliar audiences.

  • soavemusica says:

    So, feminism consists of disapproving unchivalrous men, and dressing like that?

    Clothes are repressive, ladies shall emancipate?

  • Alviano says:

    I am not sure that is the best dress for her.

  • Huber says:

    Whether it’s wearing a tight dress or holding a kazoo on a stage…same “look at me” musician mentality. It gets old fast.

  • Achim Mentzel says:

    Whoever is not enthusiastic about her two arguments, cast the first stone.

  • a colleague says:

    if anyone doesn’t like what she’s wearing, comments in anyway that she’s showing too much, DON’T LOOK. it’s getting tiring…

    • Achim Mentzel says:

      Who knows Khatia, knows that she puts on something like that to cause a reaction. The same goes for her miniskirt colleague Yuja. Maybe in a perfect world you can dress like a hooker and expect everyone to tune that out and talk about a Beethoven interpretation. In our world, provocations always evoke reactions. And mostly these are not nice ones, like the comments you mentioned.

  • Fernandel says:

    Embarrassing moment…

  • Henry williams says:

    I have permission to see her in concert. But i must not
    Sit in the front row.

  • Claudio says:

    As far as she continues to play marvellously, I don’t care what she is wearing.

    Then why you guys don’t blame Thielemann wearing his blue sack-like suit or Nelsons for his long black shirt coming down to his knees or his purple velvet suit for 2020 Vienna Neujahrconcert?

    • Karin Becker says:

      Both gentlemen age like other men, they become rounder, not to say fatter. Thielemann is over 60, Nelsons only 44. They have always been serious and successful musicians; in their youth they were both good-looking. But they never sexualised their performances and struck sexy poses. Men are not expected to do that either, YW and KB on the other hand are embarrassing and have, especially YW, bad fashion taste.
      PS The conductor Viotti makes sexiness on his website.

      • Ellingtonia says:

        So come on them Karin, lets have a few photographs of your good self decked out in your own sartorial elegance…………and do tell us of the fashion houses that you have been commissioned to design for!

      • Claudio says:

        If you see a beautiful woman in a beautiful dress as embarassing, I think you must visit ophthalmologist.

        By the way, Thielemann looks good in his tailcoat even in his 62.
        Sartorial choices of Nelsons are just a great mystery for me 🙂

        I mean, let’s judge everyone in the same terms

  • torches and pitchforks says:

    A group of men jeering at a woman musician. How surprising.

  • Robin says:

    All our dear Khatia is doing is simply keeping abreast of fashion.

  • Billy says:

    Why does she keep messing with her hair?

  • Vaquero357 says:

    I don’t think Khatia has to work too hard to seize the limelight, with or without a piano at hand.

  • Ulysses says:

    Just how many people listen with their ears? In this instance she is not playing, what she is wearing is irrelevant…

  • tanya says:

    Wow, how many negative comments! Khatia is a wonderful pianist, a very intelligent, well-educated person, she speaks several languages. She is a humanist who, among other things, always tries to help her native Georgia and also Ukraine. If this all not enough to love her, she is a gorgeous, beautiful woman. I am pretty sure that all her critics do not have a tiny fractions of her accomplishments.

  • Morgan says:

    At the film festival! What film was she associated with?

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