Yeah, you can hear it around 2:17 too. I saw Belle Helene last month in Nantes and thought the very same thing. And funnily enough, one of the tenors in the production was in the same Orphee I own.
I like the way they are doing a grapevine step (very folkie "Greek") at the beginning of the song. I can't imagine anyone from the great days of opera doing this - like Treigle or Milnes. Possibly Cyril Ritchard...
michel senachal is my hero.
Excelente puesta de una opereta, formidable
Yeah, you can hear it around 2:17 too. I saw Belle Helene last month in Nantes and thought the very same thing. And funnily enough, one of the tenors in the production was in the same Orphee I own.
I like the way they are doing a grapevine step (very folkie "Greek") at the beginning of the song. I can't imagine anyone from the great days of opera doing this - like Treigle or Milnes. Possibly Cyril Ritchard...
Clachas is doing the Harlem Shake at 2:41 ! =P
this is Offenbach where talking about, of course you'll hear blatant quotations of his own previous music, he was cool like that. :P
You probably already know this as well, but the ending is a parody of the chorus from Verdi's Nabucco.
GREEK WORDS EVERYWHERE
the translation is bad!