Thinking on illustrations I have seen.
The mid 18th c opera women must have sun in stays. I'm working from memory
here, but the engravinfgs I can remember of Handel operas show full-bore 1700's
court dress, wigs, paniers out to there, feathers on the tops of heads. And
all of this done with no modern amplification, so it must be do-able.
Now the men were in kind of Roman armor ( I can't remeber the opera. Judith
or some such thing) , and being a caracture, the heads were tiny, as were the
legs, and the breastplate was HUGE...of course they were making fun of some
Italian castrato.
Mia in Charlotte
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