Inside the DIVA exhibition

Featuring iconic performers from opera to stage, popular music to film, this exhibition explores how the role of 'diva' has been subverted or embraced over time.

This exhibition includes a headset experience which is not compatible with hearing aids and cochlear implants. Please email accessibility@vam.ac.uk for more information.

Red costumes on mannequins
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★★★★★ Viva la Diva! A celebration of dizzying star-power across the ages

Telegraph
Blue curtain, dress and paintings
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Two dresses and an open wooden box
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Worship the queens of stage, screen and stadium in a smash-hit show

The Times
Three stage costumes in blue tones
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Yellow wall with costumes on mannequins and flat images
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DIVA at the V&A: this is one hell of a party

Evening Standard
Display of costumes against pink wall and Warhol pop image of Marilyn Monroe
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Two costumes on mannequins with blue background
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The V&A's latest exhibition is celebrating divas in all their glory

Time Out
Two yellow costumes and a pair of shoes plus photographs
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Three brightly coloured costumes on mannequins
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From Victorian opera singers to Debbie Harry, a new exhibition showcases the historic and iconoclastic fashion of women in charge of their own destinies...the exhibition is set to burst diva territory wide open.

The Guardian
Photograph of Whitney Houston and her dress on a mannequin
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wide angle view of room with costumes on mannequins
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From Callas to Monroe to Rihanna, there isn't a single name missing from the V&A's immersive, memory-stirring, son-et-lumière extravaganza.

Telegraph
three pink-coloured costumes on mannequins
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Black coat on mannequin and image of Rihanna on digital screen
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