Does your ideal mate have the typical body of a ballet dancer or an opera singer? (I’m sure there are skinny opera singers and maybe chunky dancers, but they are the exception,not the rule) My ideal woman is definitely more opera singer. Of course, I am very much a boob man. I also love music, although I have no talent in that area; I have no rhythm and I can’t stay in tune to save my life. So a woman who can sing is definitely a turn on. Although a dancer’s body awareness might be of use in other parts of life. It’s definitely opera singer for me.
I would prefer a beautiful, Prima Ballerina.
Most definitely a ballet dancer. Slight, graceful and stylish.
My dating history suggests a dab of psychological instability seals the deal for me.
Closer to a ballet dancer . . . but taller, thinner, and definitely with less muscular legs.
And by the way, most opera singers and not as heavy as you think.
Sign me up for a Baritone or Basso Profundo, although preferably somewhat slimmer than Pavarotti was for so long.
What, those of us who like guys can’t play?
Thinner than a ballet dancer–that doesn’t seem possible. Since Balanchine, the standard has been emaciated. I’m happy to be corrected, but I thought ballerinas tend to have almost no body fat (including breasts). From stills I’ve seen of women at practice, this
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seems pretty typical.
To answer the OP, Placido Domingo in the movie of La Traviata was pretty dreamy.
One of my closest friends is training as an opera singer, and neither she nor any of her fellow voice students who I’ve seen are built the way you might imagine. None of them look like ballerinas either, but they represent a pretty ordinary range of body sizes and shapes.
Opera is very competitive, and opera singers do worry about their figures. If two similarly talented singers are after the same role then the more attractive one is going to have an advantage. In 2004 Deborah Voight was cut from a Covent Garden production of Ariadne auf Naxos because of her weight. She was replaced by a slimmer but less well-known soprano, Anne Schwanewilms. Voight later had gastric bypass surgery and lost over 100 pounds. She’s still not what you’d call skinny – Wikipedia estimates that she got down to a size 14 after the operation, and she looks bigger than that to me in recent photos – but her experience showed that size does matter even for the world’s top opera singers.
I may be reading too much into your question, but I wanted to make it clear that modern opera singers tend to look more like Schwanewilms, Renee Fleming, or even Rachel Dear than the stereotypical bowling ball in a horned helmet.
Tough call. When you’re ugly you tend to overlook what’s on the outside. I guess if I had to call it I’d say opera singer.
C’mon guys, it’s pretty obvious he was just asking, “hey, do you find yourself more attracted to a thin waif or a sturdily-built person*?” through a comparison of two stereotypes in the arts. Since everyone who’s replied to tell him Opera singers often aren’t fat obviously understood the mental image he meant, obviously he was able to communicate the body shape effectively.
My first lover was in fact a singer with operatic training. Sturdy, curvy Pittsburgh German girl. Oh, yes.
It’s possible to communicate all kinds of things effectively by using stereotypes, but that doesn’t mean it’s always a good idea. It’s often inaccurate/misleading and sometimes offensive. But since you brought up effectiveness, I actually DON’T understand what body type he had in mind. Obese, overweight, or just not-skinny? A rotund woman, what I called the “stereotypical bowling ball in a horned helmet” above, or an hourglass figure?
Ballet dancer, definitely. Not so much because of her body size, but rather what she can do with those legs. Singing in bed isn’t as fun.
My ideal woman has the body of a ballet dancer. Which works out nicely, because I married one (she even has boobs!) +1!
I’ll take a belly dancer, please.
I got dibs first!
I’d go with a bit more curvey than your typical ballerina. More like an exotic dancer without the cartoonishly fake boobs, drinking problems, coke habit, crazy daddy issues, or work history of grinding her ass into strange men’s crotches for $20s.
[Young Frankenstein]“Ah, sweet mystery of life at last I’ve found you!”[/Young Frankenstein]
Ballet dancers tend to have really messed up feet, thats kind of a severe turn off so ill have to go with the opera singer.
I know a few professional female opera singers and a handful of ex-ballet dancers. Give me the opera singer. Please. At least 'til the others complete their therapy.
In real life, an opera singer.
Have you ever seen a ballerina? They look like pre-pubescent girls; feeling attracted to them is close to a fantasy of pedophilia.
Also, remember, opera singers aren’t all overweight and I wouldn’t even say overweight opera singers are the norm, just the caricature. Goggling photos of opera soprano photos doesn’t show anyone I would call fat.