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... him. The opera house hints to the audience the connection between the old baroque and neo-baroque since it is itself a "replica of the old opera house" as the famous radio presenter, Ruby Rod announces. Ruby Rod is himself an example of excess and instability. Calabrese comments that aspects of "...disturbance and provocation - to the point of vulgarity - can be found in the sexuality expressed by some contemporary rock stars" (p.60, Neo-Baroque: a sign of the times, Princeton UP, 1992). Ruby Rod represents the pop culture of the day; clothed in an extravagant, feminine dress, wearing make up, and yet somehow uncontrollably attractive to women. This transvestism can be found in such recent pop icons as Boy George. A more recent example of this sort of phenomenon is the Russian group T.a.T.u. currently in the pop charts with the song "All the Things She Said" of ...