Offenbach : Patriotic trio (La Belle Hélène)

[tungstino]

What a pleasure is it to have discovered Offbach's operatas on the Youtube, besides his LES CONTES D'HOFFMANN.

[Trulina1]

Excelente puesta de una opereta, formidable

[thorwickstrom]

michel senachal is my hero.

[mouthmouse]

the translation is bad!

[paneche]

This is the most talent version of La belle Helena I·d ever seen. Grate Laurent Pelly.

[GreekOperaLover]

GREEK WORDS EVERYWHERE

[Goethefemme]

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...

[henrydarthenay]

Comme il faut de la volonté pour résister à tant de conviction!!!!

[qyhubert]

Am I crazy, or do I hear a excerpt from "Orpheus in the Underworld" from 2:45-2:47 and a couple times before that?! The part I'm thinking I'm hearing is variously titled "When Jupy Feels The Inclination"

[FoxyGrandpa]

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.

[yumyumwhatzohai]

this is Offenbach where talking about, of course you'll hear blatant quotations of his own previous music, he was cool like that. :P

[prostotak01]

You probably already know this as well, but the ending is a parody of the chorus from Verdi's Nabucco.

[easlovo]

You probably know this already but the beginning of this number is a direct, hilarious quote from the big trio in Rossini's WILLIAM TELL, and so is "J'expire!" The French audience of the time, of course, would have recognized the quote and laughed heartily.

[celly1406]

Laurent...( L )

[bibu91]

I love Laurent Naouri!!

Viva Agamemnon!

[guigui1789]

Formidable!!

[phanphuc]

Damn, that dance is hilarious. Michel Senechal's so awesome, the very best character-tenor there is.