Les Indes galantes. Les Sauvages

[marteloto1]

Me too! I savagely love it!

[ichbifeuertrunk]

I hope the choreography is INTENTIONALLY funny.

[baptiste2975]

Quelqu'un sait de quelle production il s'agit?

[orfeoedeuridice777]

this should have been in the Met's Enchanted island

[sakishirocp9]

Sent here by Mrs. Highfield~

[pessoayvone]

QUELLE SURPRISE TE TROUVER DE NOUVEAU.! C' EST UNE SACRÉE FOLIE.

[MrSDMarti]

Sublime, cette joyeuse folie collective !!!

[MattFlinders67]

Why does this remind me of Walk Like an Egyptian by the Bangles ?

[JaimieAppleton]

This is ridiculously catchy

[Kneenibble]

It's so camp. I can't get enough of this production.

[FirewindII]

And, thethikboy, there was only one Rameau.

[FirewindII]

Looks like what Cirque du Soleil might do if they were stuck on the ground.

[kolektanto]

Extrait du DVD Opus-Arte 2005 ?

[indiangirl1805]

grande!!!!!

[thethikboy]

delightful lilting melody only Rameaux would have written

[chickflickaddict91]

We watched this today in my music class in college and we all died laughing!!!! Music is brillent and everything but its ment to be a comedy and by god is that dancing funny!!

[lilyfuzz]

i agree about the speed.

[sandisandi]

Este cea mai frumoasa arie pe care o cunosc. Rameau, suflet de lumina, esti nemuritor prin insasi genialitatea Ta. Cu mult, mult respect...eu.

[Vic2Guem4]

this is not an original staging, but the music is beautiful, and this is as fast as it must be in my opinion.

[lowemgrim]

@Vic2Guem4 Not sure. I always found this very slow. Reading the available records I am more convinced on Marc Minkowski version. To be honest, if we imagine those days, this pace would make them sleep....

[pavel1109]

I'm actually kinda scared

but the song is catchy

[killer9585]

WTF iam scared

[InglouriousGamerX]

my brain just oozed out of my ears. wtf is this!?

[TheLoljas100]

Brilliant! Masterly staging full of joy and fun. I've watched it many times and am never tired of it. Beautiful singing and musicianship throughout.

[friskalassan]

This might be my favorite thing ever.

[liamog1000]

liking the chicken dance

[lzkenshinzl]

girl on duty singing ?!lol

[thestarcraftsaga]

sent here by girl on duty :)

[morris12345100]

wtf

[icylakepaxphile]

haha... french opera in the 18th century was just for intertainment. Grand Opera itself just was a sort og the very high class variety show. don't take it so sierious.

[stheive]

magnifique, le rythme et l'expression de ces humains montrent vraiment la vie, ca procure de la gaité ^^

[DiVeronica]

excellente!

[kaybay456]

I...can't take this very serious. I'm laughing to much at the fun the drummer is having xD

[Turenne64]

Maravilloso!

[BaronVonKenny]

lol, the Europeans in the background look far more ridiculous than the stereotypical natives in the foreground.

[slothfat]

I find it very interesting that back in the 18th century, Rameau, in this opera, took it to America. I wonder what he thought of it then, and how he knew many things about it like the Indians!

[Labryschick]

what an interesting production! Thanks for posting!

[Anthocoll66]

Vive la musique Baroque !!!

[wrongbuzz]

J'aime ecouter de la musique classique!

[lotushector19]

This is beautiful, fun, tongue-in-cheek, supremely creative and fantastically sung.

[glishev]

C'est adorable. J'aime ce contraste entre musique et choréographie :)

[mtoussieh]

@glishev contraste? :)

[leidulfr]

J'aime la musique, mais la chorégraphie me fait trop rire.

[HippieBuni]

the music is entrancing but the dancing is hideously racist.

[naibafrefeasch]

@HippieBuni how stupid can one be? this is, uhhh, how to say it?!? IRONY? playing on western stereotypes about "the Indians" as noble savages...

[Aeythvaenn]

@HippieBuni Tellez moi wai zies ies racist

[HippieBuni]

the music is entrancing but the dancing is hideously racist.

[masterclassicalmusic]

music: great but.....

action: some things stupid

[tiannoasso]

I love it too.Execellent!

[CutieiaStaraa342]

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[diegorenaud]

Vive l'opéra ballet! Il faut propager Rameau... Un des plus brillant compositeur Français de tout les temps. Vive la France! l'ancienne comme la nouvelle....

[randymoe]

J'ai appris cette chanson en classe de guitare, et une recherche pour elle pour mieux la comprendre, j'ai été amusé de trouver cette version. Love it.

[MyNeo555]

Bravo!!!!!!

[mzim144659]

I love it too. Hypnotic. Exhilerating!

[Prancer1231]

I love this

[jogejoge100]

Great humor and well done

[jogejoge100]

Rameau had a great sense of humor, Bravo life is like this if you enjoy his works

[amofuego]

for some odd reason this opera does not have a huge following in the United States...I wonder why?

[mzim144659]

Primal. Inspired choreography, costuming, musicality,... The works.

[DrLux]

Directed by Andrei Serban. He is a genius.

[davidwendell1]

@DrLux - Seriously? Perhaps a genius along the lines of Bill Murray.

[DrLux]

@davidwendell1

Well .... maybe your humour is along the lines of a beginner Bill Murray. :)

[MICHELELKAIM]

Excellent moment de joie et de bonheur

Belle interprétation bravo david Christie pour la direction

Bravo à la chorégraphe

Quel rythme moderne!!!

[Musiquamea]

génial ! et très drôle...

[hectoriette]

trop beau nicolas!!!!

[Loobs666]

It's been a while since I watched this (and variants of it)... I was gob-struck at how dire it was back then... it's deffo not improved with age, as big a pile of amateurish shit as ever! They're still doing the Funky Chicken FFS!

[iwantapwnie]

@Loobs666 and yet, I suspect you couldn't do the majority of the "amateurish" steps of the dancers... yes, part of the steps they do are identical to the "funky chicken". The whole purpose of it is to use simplistic steps. A sense of humour helps to see why. Or haven't you noticed the mickey mouse ears, the elf ears, the costumes that are pretty much 1950s movie cliche, all that? If you're just taking that at face value, then ... yeah, it would look "dire" to you, I guess. Lighten up.

[Afiban91]

Somptueuse représentation !

[OrinsLove]

which section of the opera is this?

[Claudiaz]

@OrinsLove

C'est la IVème entrée "LES SAUVAGES".

[hectoriette]

purée la pocahantas du tambour elle se marre trop, c'est trop drole!! bravo c'est trop bien!

[ChibiRaikou]

haha, too racist

[euryce]

Where's India???

[StCorentin]

@euryce

In18th century in France India means "overseas exotic country". Les Indes Galantes have 4 entrées "or acts" one in Turkia, one in Persia, one in Péru and one in north America (which you see here) and not in India in modern meaning.

[frenchiecocorico1]

@StCorentin Quelle absurdité. C'est un manque total de culture historique. Les indiens étaient appelés ainsi car Christophe Colomb était parti à la recherche d'une voie vers les Indes en partant vers l'ouest. Ainsi, les nouvelles terres qu'il a découvertes ce sont appelées d'abord "Indes de l'Ouest" et leurs habitants "les Indiens". Pour contester ses droits sur ces découvertes, la couronne espagnole a renommé ces territoires "Amériques", du nom du cartographe de l'époque Amerigo Vespuci.

[StCorentin]

@frenchiecocorico1

Bien sur, c'est pour çà que 2 des quatre tableaux de l'ouvrage de Rameau se situe en Perse et en Turquie.

:)

[frenchiecocorico1]

@StCorentin Oui, effectivement car l'auteur joue ici sur l'ambiguité bien connue déjà à l'époque entre Indes de l'Ouest (Amériques) et Indes de l'Est (Indes orientales) dont la Turquie et la Perse (Iran) étaient sensés faire partie. L'Inde n'a pas toujours été limitée à ses frontières actuelles. C'est donc pour cela qu'on trouve de nos jours à la fois au nord de l'Inde et'en Iran des Parsis descendants des anciens Perses et qu'on trouve en Afganistan des statues de Boudha (Bahmian)....

[Dogaradodia]

Certifié intergalactique! Les Français sont des gens super! Divertissement sans égal! Patricia Petibon est très sexy!

[DuncanHennessy]

Hm, je croyais qu'ils etaient en Inde, pas au pays des canards.

[Zeobit]

God, how I love this rhythm!

I can't help but tipping my foot all the time, truly timeless music :-)

[MusicaBodasMurcia]

Nous aimons beaucoup Mlle Patrice Pétibon ;)

[harvardkarbodie]

I just realized at the end, they're all singing with pipes in their mouths!

[Kevinsar]

@harvardkarbodie : The pipes in their mouths while

only the choir had to sing.

[etiterum]

@Kevinsar, these are calumets.

[0018191]

no, orribile scenografia etc.

[gianm73yout]

It is not my favourite version, but Patricia Petibon is wonderful here.

[eruptionista]

Sublime! Rameau by Jarman

[kagssegal]

Do they have an english version of this song? :D

[tempodimarcia]

lmfao the soprano's googly eyes crack me up.

[alroba43]

William Christie et Patricia Petitbon, une merveille d'interprétation, ballet et chorégraphie un absolut de classe et de beauté. Un vœux, vivre le spectacle, malheureusement rare en Suisse.

[luigiperso]

wow.....thanks for posting this.....

[schoschi09]

amazing

[Steerpike07]

What a superb production. Love it.

[Merryjest]

Rameau wrote such beautiful music. Around the middle of the century, in the Carribean island of Dominica, a group of French immigrants were having a party, to which a number of natives were present. Rameau's "Les Sauvages" was played, and immediately roused the enthusiasm of the natives, who started dancing in their own fashion to the tune, and danced themselved to exhaustion. Rameau was informed of his success, which he found the most flattering because it was sincere and pure.

[faricallas]

Es preciosa esta escena con las tribus bailando ;la voz de la soprano, pese a su estatura es maravillosa. Rameau como buen francés mucho gusto en la música.

[TRIUM25]

It takes all sorts...I am a bit of a pleb, I loved it! Any ideas if the whole DVD is available anywhere? The light hearted approach really appealed - can watch this over and over again!

[RGMc39]

@TRIUM25 It's on the OpusArte Label --2 DVDs-- 4 hours and 4 minutes of delight. It was recorded at the Paris Opera, Palais Garnier, with Wm Christie and Les Arts Florissants and a great cast.

Rameau used many popular melodies and dances of his time -- NOT some formal court dance. It was all "veddy tongue in cheek" on the day it was composed. For those who can't enjoy, please adjourn to Franz Liszt' Trauer Marsche.

[P1B1U1H1]

@TRIUM25 You can get the DVD on Amazon, but that won't solve your addiction problem. You will continue to return to You Tube when you do not have the DVD handy.

[Loobs666]

Aw come on.... it's shit! All that funky chicken bollocks and stomping around like a kiddy version of American Indians totally destroy the track!

[Thorbjorn14]

I don't really like this production, owing to the fact it's not representative of the baroque age. Nervethless, musique is good.

[moskva40]

This is too funny. I would have been hard-pressed not to laugh out loud during the performance.

[Piquet36]

I don't think that even back in the 18th century this 'entree' was supposed to be taken seriously. The 'bison dancers' are excellent and the rest of the ensemble have the innocent naivete of children - that's what it meant to be a 'savage' back in Rameau's day. Yes it was a 'racist' era - so is ours, and we should know better that to judge the past by our standards.

[peteacher52]

@Piquet36 Very good comment. I was thinking of saying the same thing, except that you said it better.

[heldopslippers]

Why do people have to yell something within a 10th of a second after the performance. if they like a piece wait at least a few seconds so it can be edited out for the DVD. I think it is very impolite.

But what a marvelous choreography!

I do not entirely understand though why people are offended by this. If you think it is racist, don't watch it. I entirely agree with @AtahualpaGoldstein.

Nox est perpetua una dormienda.

[miCeciliaBartoli]

je pourait regarder cette video des heures durant! c'est vraiment EXCELLENT!!!!!

[FairDealDan]

Is This Monty Python? I'm Not sure if its a joke or serious. Anyway I like it

[ChibiRaikou]

haha this is ridiculous

[Injun20]

Y'all should just sit down.

[otherjoe1234]

that drummer is having way too much fun with this  :D

[mzim144659]

@otherjoe1234  He HAS to have been directed, don't you think? It's so engaging when he glances at the audience. His measured step-up is tasteful, as well as his bravura drumstick tricks. I'm auditioning for that part, if it comes to Ohio.

[P1B1U1H1]

@mzim144659 Drummers ALWAYS have the most fun. Just look at any orchestra video. You will see the violinists and every one else concentrating intently, the corners of their lips below the centers. The drummers, by contrast, almost always smile.

[DiVeronica]

@otherjoe1234 I think he's having just the right amount

[lent77cv]

AWESOME!

[ekinnaz]

Amazing! The singers, orchestra, choreography, chorus. and the interpretation... Wonderful piece of work!

[4PlagalCadence1]

i love how harmonically centered this music is. Rameau = brilliant.

[sequincircus]

Doesn't any one else see this performance as racist? A Eurocentric parody and eroticization of the Aboriginal 'Other'?...

[magnaliberatio]

@sequincircus you are overly politicizing this. Remember, this music is centuries old. Can't you lean back and simply enjoy this splendid piece of art, instead of going out of your way to be politically correct ???? poor you !!

[otherjoe1234]

@magnaliberatio

i see his point though. although we don't know what the original choreography for this was like, the music at least does offer us an idea at the rather skewy view that european's had on native american peoples. it's interesting to hear an artistic point of view on it.

[katelin108]

@sequincircus Thank you! Absolutely. Even if the origional music and productions were racist in their own time, doesn't mean modern choreography has to follow suite today!

[Harmonieuniverselle]

The perfect video is the the right and perfect sound (music) with the right and perfect picture (interpretation)...that makes this video a perfect one!

I want just to notice a thing; the guy with the tambourin is really playing it, he is not just for figuration.

[Loobs666]

7 weeks in (I took the 6th of to Honour Terpsichore....which is more than these Cunts did) and all that pipe smoking, pretending to be Native Americans funky chicken routine is as still as shit as ever.

[AtahualpaGoldstein]

What a beautiful sauvage is Patricia Petibon! I can't stop watching and enjoying this choreography!

[UnaDormienda]

Nicolas Rivenq is delicious too. I love the mixture of humour and eye-wateringy beautiful music.

Thankyou for posting the words in French - it all adds to the glorious fantasy of it all. I can't get enough Rameau.

[AtahualpaGoldstein]

You're right: Rivenq's performance as an archetypical Indian from 50's & 60's movies is just amazing; he's a great baritone, maybe unfairly overlooked by critics.

Rameau's music, great voices, humour, a marvelous and inventive choreography (that chicken step is simply glorious!), what more can one ask for?

Nox est perpetua una dormienda.

[magnaliberatio]

@UnaDormienda Same for me. Ever since I discovered Rameau, two words keep coming back to me, indeed: "glory" and "fantasy". Did you ever listen to the ouverture "Zais" from Rameau, as directed by Minkowsky ? It is here on youtube and absolutely fantastic. So is the "Gavotte avec ses doubles", played on harpsichord by Trevor Pinnock.

About Nicholas Rivenq: his full capacities can be heard in "In convertendo Dominus", 2nd part ( a bass solo ), as directed by Christie. Highly recommended ! :-))))

[AtahualpaGoldstein]

Forêts paisibles, forêts paisibles, Jamais un vain désir ne trouble ici nos coeurs. S'ils sont sensibles, s'ils sont sensibles, Fortune, ce n'est pas au prix de tes faveurs. Dans nos retraites, dans nos retraites, Grandeur, ne viens jamais Offrir tes faux attraits! Ciel, Ciel! tu les as faites pour l'innocence et pour la paix. Jouissons dans nos asiles, Jouissons des biens tranquilles! Ah! Ah! peut-on être heureux, Quand on forme d'autres voeux?

[Loobs666]

Well, it's now the 5th week of watching this Mutant dance routine... and, it's still getting worse with every viewing. I see evidence of the Scrapie Virus/ Mad Cow Disease and H1N1.... plus that funky chicken/ bird flu trot seems to be more and more of a giveaway. I'm thinking the choreographer maybe be a latent carrier of the 'PONCE' Virus. It causes the patient to have overt bestial symptoms, and spaz about like an old homosexual St. Vitus dance sufferer.

[UnaDormienda]

Why carry on watching it then?

[Loobs666]

@UnaDormienda Isn't it obvious? I'm a masochist.

[vithum]

Moto bene

[ducdelaval09]

enfin on peut entendre les notes inégales!Superbe!

[samerynout]

il ne faut pas oublier que les indes galantes sont une represantation idealisée et naive du "bon sauvage" , il faut avoir vu tout l'opera sacahnt que cette choregraphie vient presque a la fin du 3eme acte

[SpinoJP]

Bah c'est comme ça qu'ils imaginaient les indigènes et les indiens à cette époque...Sinon superbe musique

[TaisAthens]

Чудесно! Молодцы!

[Loobs666]

I'm now into my fourth week of watching this... and all that pipe smoking, funky chicken bollocks still aint cutting it. Fucking Rubbish!

[passpartoutable]

You must be American-the home of the ignorant and stupid, the dregs of European society.

[Loobs666]

Wrong! Guess again, you talentless twat.

[vladkyextra]

rameau - french treasure

[Sfarty]

Rassurez moi , je ne suis pas le seul a etre mort de rire en voyant cette chorégraphie ?

C'est ridicule au possible... et c'est un peu une honte pour la musique , y'en a un qui doit se retourner dans sa tombe la u_u

[leredresseur]

A prendre au deuxième ou nième degré ? Musique fabuleuse, chorégraphie....

J'en suis tout songeur!

[Siberiaeterna]

LA chorégraphie est obscène et pathétique à la limite du foutage de g....Ridicule,les pauvres qui ont passé tant d'années à travailler leur corps,on dirait un mauvais clip publicitaire pour comédie musicale grand public.Heureusement qu'il y a de grands compositeurs pour faire la carrière de ce genre de chorégraphe...

[AuroraOnVenice]

la coreographie est ridicoule. La musique c'est fantastique

[arcagex]

Hardie mais merveilleuse mise en scène qui ne devait pas être évidente avec ces masques.

Quant aux chanteurs ils se régalent et nous aussi.

Quant à la musique de Rameau, je l'ai dans la tête jusqu'à demain matin. C'est pénible !

[PEPEDEBARRO]

Forêts paisibles, Jamais un vain désir ne trouble ici nos coeurs. S'ils sont sensibles, Fortune, ce n'est pas au prix de tes faveurs. Dans nos retraites, Grandeur, ne viens jamais Offrir tes faux attraits! Ciel, tu les as faites Pour l'innocence et pour la paix. Jouissons dans nos asiles, Jouissons des biens tranquilles! Ah! peut-on être heureux, Quand on forme d'autres voeux?

[13Savitri]

Merci beaucoup!

[PEPEDEBARRO]

Pas de quoi!

Saludos desde Barcelona.

[Loobs666]

Well, I took 2 days off and then come back to look at this to see if it was as shit as I originally thought. Unbelievably, it gets worse with each viewing. Infact, jaw-droppingly horrific!

[Loobs666]

Great Music... utterly pathetic choreography. We did better playing Cowboys and Indians back in the 1960's on a Yorkshire Council Estate.

[Siberiaeterna]

La chorégraphie ne ressemble pas à grand chose car les gestes ne sont pas hyper syncros surtout au début et ca dérange,effet brouillon donc même si l'esprit de fête est là,dommage car l'orchestre le choeur et les solistes sont magnifiques.

[MOnsabre]

It's not a funky chicken, it's a turkey!!!! Le grand dèrriere de dindon. Culo de guajolote.

[MOnsabre]

Une lecture formidable, aussi de la musique comme du chauvinisme de la France au XVIIIeme siècle.

[florianUE]

L'utilisation du mot "chauvinisme" pour décrire la France du XVIIIème siècle ressemble fort à un anachronisme...

[BrynShine]

very beautiful, musically.

however, are they really doing the "funky chicken" onstage? and the Buffallo look way too delicate... that's not how Native Americans dance...

it looks like lots of fun. but I think the choreographer is a bit crazy.

[jeanambr]

You're dead right: that's not how Native Americans would dance, nor is the music how Native Americans would play. It's just how we can fancy the French nobility of the eighteenth century's being amused to mimic good American savages they did'n't know at all!

[UnaDormienda]

Yes, just so. And C18 loved wit, and this has it.

[MonsieurTeste62]

extraordinaire, prodigieux, sublime : on ne s'en lasse pas !

[PEPEDEBARRO]

Pero qué bien! Qué gracia! Bravo!

[athis11]

Absolument magnifique, j'ai vu cet opéra plusieurs fois, je ne m'en lasse pas. Découverte : les huits DVD opéras baroques vendus en presse en ce début d'année 2010 !

[MrBasilego]

La musique française poussée à sa perfection. Les règles , impérieuses à l'époque, sont ici poussées à leur limite, ce qui donne une espèce de tension à la mélodie. Et c'est sur cette tension que repose toute la mise en scène. Parce que la musique est rigoureuse , Cristie peut se permettre de délirer . Patricia Petibon est tout à fait craquante en Indienne; Et quelle voix! Quelle présence!

[tinasaturn]

n'est-ce pas que c'est vraiment magnifique?

Petibon est divine et la mise en scène suit, vraiment,me semble-t'il l'esprit de divertissement de l'époque des "Indes.."

[MrBasilego]

Les opéras baroques "prennent" merveilleusement les mises en scène folles. La musique est comme un vase: forme nette, matière dure, ornemantation savante. Le metteur en scène peut y mettre les bouquets les plus extravagants, l'ensemble  tiendra toujours. Plus j'écoute de misique baroque, plus elle me passionne.