Monday, July 25, 2011

Largo al Factotum: Jersey Shore Season 4 Goes to Italy


This isn't the first time that MTV has dipped its toe in the opera pond. Remember when they held the Video Music Awards show at the Metropolitan Opera in 1999? Well, the advertisements for the show were pretty operatically entertaining. Check out the images after the jump.



David Bowie as Mephistopheles in Gounod's Faust

Madonna in the title role of Bellini's Norma

Eminem as Siegfried from Wagner's Ring

Chris Rock in the title role of Verdi's Rigoletto

Ozzy Osbourne as Canio in Leoncavallo's Pagliacci

Britney Spears as Violetta in Verdi's La Traviata

Janet Jackson as Cleopatra in Händel's Giulio Cesare