Our men's choir just sang this for our final concert. We had so much fun singing it and the audience loved it to. What made it even more fun was our Soprano acting like a total diva (=
As a professional opera singer with an advanced degree and a wealth of pofessional experience over three-plus decades, I deem this HYSTERICAL and woe to the cretin who does not see the humor i nthis.
I just had the pleasure of seeing Inna Dukach sing Pamina ("The Magic Flute") tonight in Beijing. Her voice and acting were just superb! The biggest treat of all was listening to her and Sean Altman in a Beijing taxi doing a medley of Everly Brothers songs to get their 11-month-old daughter, Ruby, to take a nap. It was absolutely a priceless memory.
this is obviously a group of accomplished, well trained, and awesome musicians having a little bit of fun with one of the most over done arias of all time. Don't knock it! They're having a sense of humor about themselves and what they do :-) More people should do that in the industry.
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She's not asking him to forge a will, she's asking him what the guys say - she wants to marry this guy and is asking for her father's approval. She wants to get a ring (l'anello) and says if he doesn't give her his approval, she'll throw herself off the Ponte Vecchio (a bridge), into the River Arno.
Hilarious, but also done extremely well. Reminds me very much of the Beverly Sills/Carol Burnett duo where they compare the lives of the torch song singer and the prima donna. Naturally, they're not as different as we think! Even Joan Sutherland appeared on Dinah Shore and sang "Three Little Maids from School" with her and Ella Fitzgerald... can you imagine that happening these days?
This is a very clever parody of 'O Mio Babbino Caro' and very entertaining. I love the quartet's backing vocals and pop culture references with Madonna's 'Papa Don't Preach'in the surtiltes. Inna Duckach sings beautifully and the quartet provide brilliant harmonising. Thanks for posting this video.
Here we go again with the "Can you believe Aretha sang Nessun Dorma on the Grammys" -type protests... The sky is not falling down. Classical music will not disappear. Must we be made to feel bad every time some-one has a little fun some-how?
Thank you for posting this gem! It certainly brighten up MY day! Humor and great voices make a wonderful combination: I've delighted in hearing such fun from Eileen Farrell, Marilyn Horne, and our late lovely Beverly Sills.
This is Fantastic! It's a shame that Opera is mostly badly done in stiff can't-get-over-themselves productions in the U.S.
If more companies actually showed this same sense of playful sense of humor, we'd have a much bigger audience. (In case I need to be "qualified" for that opinion: 4 years studying opera.)
As far as being on the music scene professionally...I have my Bachelor of Music from a very reputable University in California and have sung with the likes of Opera Pacific of Costa Mesa. I am a private voice instructor and active as a soloist and recitalist. I believe I am entitled to an opinion whether or not I am a professional musician just from the mere fact I am an American.
And as someone with a great deal more operatic credentials than you, I am entitled to the opinion that your lack of a sense of humor is why you got no further than Costa Mesa.
You're entitled to an opinion because you're human, not because you're American. You couldn't have known it, but this extraordinary rendition was performed for a very astute audience--including accomplished, professional musicians, composers, and conductors. The kinds of listeners who know very well the difference between an interpretation gone seriously wrong, and a witty and well-sung amusement. They all recognized this as the latter, of course, and they loved it!
Now this is definitely a situation when having money and pleasing the masses becomes a serious illustration of bad taste and the dumbing down of otherwise beautiful classical music. SAD!
Actually, I see it as more of a very clever in-joke that is funnier the more knowledgeable you are about classical music (the underlying English lyrics being a basic, and comical, translation of what the song is about - bet the dumbed-down masses have no clue about that!). Ever heard of PDQ Bach? It's basically an affectionate jab at something one has great respect for. In other words, lighten up!
--A huge classical music fan who finds this clip hilarious
Believe me, I understand the 'underlying English lyrics' bit....I just think we have a little too much of this going on in the music world to appeal to the masses and not have classical music become the dying art it is at times becoming. This is a far cry from PDQ Bach...don't you think?
I think it's exactly along the lines of PDQ Bach. Something like this also has the potential to pique the interest of someone unfamiliar with classical music, to the point where they might delve into it in a more serious manner. I had a music professor in college (that one would swear was Peter Schickele's doppleganger) who would often show this kind of thing to his Music 101 students. It was a very effective way to open the door to the greater world of real art music.
IMO, the offensive stuff is when they put a club dance beat under a classical piece to make it marketable, or disco up Beethoven in an honest effort to make it "cool" or add some bad lyrics or some such nonsense. I still laugh in a "that's so bad!" way. But this arrangement, and others like it that wink knowingly at what they're doing, can be a source of genuine amusement. As someone who has been on the music scene professionally, a little levity every now and then is certainly welcomed.
It's called parody. Having money???? No one got paid at this fundraiser for a volunteer choral society, and as you can see, the classical music fans in the audience LOVED it. Here's what other opera singers are saying on their forum:
"I love it. Hilarious, but doesn't 'dumb down' the aria. More of this kind of thing, please!" (zwischen) and
"I was watching the video for the third or fourth time. It's funny, clever, witty, and to me, it's even moving. It is not a vulgarization of the aria, unlikemost attempts to apply popular genres to classical pieces. These performers have taken an aria that, because of its sentimentality and extreme popularity, invites parody, have applied an utterly incongruous mode of music-making to it, and the really extraordinary thing, shown how the two fit together. A rare achievement."
This is hilarious and it works on many layered levels. And, you obviously missed the "oohs" generated by the beautiful floated"Pieta" shortly before the final cadence.
Get a sense of humor or you will never survive the business.
Hahaha, DAY. MADE!
josephineissocool 1 month ago
That's so funny! This is creativity at its best!
u02920 6 months ago
What fun! Love it. Thanks for posting this hilarious clip.
Mavicaman 6 months ago
This is AMAZING...this has Sean and Steve all over it!!!
altima169 10 months ago
klass!!! great arrangement!!! i loved it! BRAVO!!! done with Talent!!!
Callas999 1 year ago 2
Our men's choir just sang this for our final concert. We had so much fun singing it and the audience loved it to. What made it even more fun was our Soprano acting like a total diva (=
guithero24 1 year ago
As a professional opera singer with an advanced degree and a wealth of pofessional experience over three-plus decades, I deem this HYSTERICAL and woe to the cretin who does not see the humor i nthis.
burghbill 1 year ago 3
lol
Rozism 2 years ago
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sydneeainsley 2 years ago
I just had the pleasure of seeing Inna Dukach sing Pamina ("The Magic Flute") tonight in Beijing. Her voice and acting were just superb! The biggest treat of all was listening to her and Sean Altman in a Beijing taxi doing a medley of Everly Brothers songs to get their 11-month-old daughter, Ruby, to take a nap. It was absolutely a priceless memory.
wkyken 2 years ago 4
Great! Victor Borge would have loved it!
laurieellington 2 years ago 8
Papa don't preach!!!! Omg, I never would have seen that if it weren't for those subtitles, and that totally makes me like it more.
The lead vocalist is absolutely amazing, and of course the backup quartet is stellar.
Lovin' it ^_^
BlushingRoses 2 years ago
Wow! I forgot I added this to my playlist! This is AWESOME!!!!!!!!!
iheartceline 2 years ago
wow fantastic :D it's really funny!! :)
madziua90 2 years ago
The superfluous supertitles are the only flaw in this lovely thing.
kevinashworth 3 years ago
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Destroying one of the most beautiful songs in the history of music! Shame on you.
notableinc 3 years ago
ARE YOU KIDDING? This is funny! I supposed you don't like Victor Borge or Anna Russell either.
cgjcks 3 years ago 12
P.S. Sarah Brightman destroyed it!
cgjcks 3 years ago 11
HA! True....
this is obviously a group of accomplished, well trained, and awesome musicians having a little bit of fun with one of the most over done arias of all time. Don't knock it! They're having a sense of humor about themselves and what they do :-) More people should do that in the industry.
BlushingRoses 2 years ago 7
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policewoman 3 years ago
Bravo!!!lol
ViennaDog 3 years ago
caruccio veramente!
espania75 3 years ago
Everything about this is BRILLIANT!!!!!!!!!!!
ilovelasagna 3 years ago 6
Really funny!
It's funnier if you know Gianni Schicci-and that the song is a girl asking her daddy to forge a will.
Fladabosco 3 years ago 2
She's not asking him to forge a will, she's asking him what the guys say - she wants to marry this guy and is asking for her father's approval. She wants to get a ring (l'anello) and says if he doesn't give her his approval, she'll throw herself off the Ponte Vecchio (a bridge), into the River Arno.
AnnaDaae48 2 years ago
I missed the 50,000 party. How was it?
andrewbgarland 3 years ago
I STILL love this video!
andrewbgarland 4 years ago 2
How does she get through that without cracking up?
juloha 4 years ago 3
this is just wonderful.....not only can opera buffs get a hearty laugh from it but is shows opera can be fun.
bette2007 4 years ago
ive had this as my featured chanel video ever since i saw it!!!
hartnell114 4 years ago
awesome
missin2003 4 years ago
thanks to share with us a differents version.
music can't fix..
BlueJaZ 4 years ago
Great stuff!Nice to have new interpretations, if it can be called that, of this classic aria! Coolnesss.
phantomunmasked 4 years ago 2
The classical version of Blue Swede's riff of "Hooked on a Feeling"
Ooga chugga...
maxproconsul 4 years ago
So great. Thanks for posting.
billybluenote 4 years ago
Hilarious, but also done extremely well. Reminds me very much of the Beverly Sills/Carol Burnett duo where they compare the lives of the torch song singer and the prima donna. Naturally, they're not as different as we think! Even Joan Sutherland appeared on Dinah Shore and sang "Three Little Maids from School" with her and Ella Fitzgerald... can you imagine that happening these days?
JackSWolfe 4 years ago
I LOVE IT
luisalubell 4 years ago
most probabally the funniet thing i have ever seen and will ever see!
hartnell114 4 years ago
That is awsome!
mezzobuff 4 years ago
this was great! I loved it
ComaLies225 4 years ago
Brilliant! I love it!
silvermoonlight007 4 years ago
Love it!
mijst4 4 years ago
i know her and one of them and they are great
checco715 4 years ago
Bwah!
mermade07 4 years ago
Groove Barbers: You all are great!!!...
They complement to each other as a real group should be...really congrats....
Inna Dukach: you have a beautiful voice, i love it!!!
mejucre 4 years ago
This is wonderful and shows that opera can be fun for everyone. THANKS.
bette2007 4 years ago
This is a very clever parody of 'O Mio Babbino Caro' and very entertaining. I love the quartet's backing vocals and pop culture references with Madonna's 'Papa Don't Preach'in the surtiltes. Inna Duckach sings beautifully and the quartet provide brilliant harmonising. Thanks for posting this video.
linhcba 4 years ago
ILOVE IT .... FANTASTICO
luisalubell 4 years ago
I can only hope that one day my music will be famous enough to be spoofed.
petrushka1611 4 years ago
Hahah.. Just kidding. Sean Altman is the godfather of a cappella:)
I love him so.
b3great 4 years ago
Where is Scott Leonard when you need him?
b3great 4 years ago
Here we go again with the "Can you believe Aretha sang Nessun Dorma on the Grammys" -type protests... The sky is not falling down. Classical music will not disappear. Must we be made to feel bad every time some-one has a little fun some-how?
martinorocks 4 years ago
Thank you for posting this gem! It certainly brighten up MY day! Humor and great voices make a wonderful combination: I've delighted in hearing such fun from Eileen Farrell, Marilyn Horne, and our late lovely Beverly Sills.
CroneUp 4 years ago
This is Fantastic! It's a shame that Opera is mostly badly done in stiff can't-get-over-themselves productions in the U.S.
If more companies actually showed this same sense of playful sense of humor, we'd have a much bigger audience. (In case I need to be "qualified" for that opinion: 4 years studying opera.)
unpaired 4 years ago
there is nothing wrong with this entertainment show ,I beleive more people should get involved with opera in one way or another .
smartsteve 4 years ago
Fantastic, great fun!!
alangermont 4 years ago
Anyone who has a problem with this should lighten up. It was absolutely charming.
purplesop 4 years ago
Oh NO! I meant to type "intelligent," not "not intelligent." That's what haste will do for you.
tenoreleven 4 years ago
As a lover of opera <i>and</i> a lover of male a cappella quartets, whether barbershop or not, I LOVE this!
I especially love the fact that the comments are literate and not intelligent. There IS hope!
tenoreleven 4 years ago
omg that was so funny. im practically crying! bravi!
iAMturandot 4 years ago
As far as being on the music scene professionally...I have my Bachelor of Music from a very reputable University in California and have sung with the likes of Opera Pacific of Costa Mesa. I am a private voice instructor and active as a soloist and recitalist. I believe I am entitled to an opinion whether or not I am a professional musician just from the mere fact I am an American.
blondelust69 4 years ago
And as someone with a great deal more operatic credentials than you, I am entitled to the opinion that your lack of a sense of humor is why you got no further than Costa Mesa.
Cheers from Lincoln Center.
smrr5624 4 years ago
You're entitled to an opinion because you're human, not because you're American. You couldn't have known it, but this extraordinary rendition was performed for a very astute audience--including accomplished, professional musicians, composers, and conductors. The kinds of listeners who know very well the difference between an interpretation gone seriously wrong, and a witty and well-sung amusement. They all recognized this as the latter, of course, and they loved it!
zeljoboston 2 years ago
Now this is definitely a situation when having money and pleasing the masses becomes a serious illustration of bad taste and the dumbing down of otherwise beautiful classical music. SAD!
blondelust69 4 years ago
Actually, I see it as more of a very clever in-joke that is funnier the more knowledgeable you are about classical music (the underlying English lyrics being a basic, and comical, translation of what the song is about - bet the dumbed-down masses have no clue about that!). Ever heard of PDQ Bach? It's basically an affectionate jab at something one has great respect for. In other words, lighten up!
--A huge classical music fan who finds this clip hilarious
coliamkit 4 years ago
Believe me, I understand the 'underlying English lyrics' bit....I just think we have a little too much of this going on in the music world to appeal to the masses and not have classical music become the dying art it is at times becoming. This is a far cry from PDQ Bach...don't you think?
blondelust69 4 years ago
I think it's exactly along the lines of PDQ Bach. Something like this also has the potential to pique the interest of someone unfamiliar with classical music, to the point where they might delve into it in a more serious manner. I had a music professor in college (that one would swear was Peter Schickele's doppleganger) who would often show this kind of thing to his Music 101 students. It was a very effective way to open the door to the greater world of real art music.
coliamkit 4 years ago
IMO, the offensive stuff is when they put a club dance beat under a classical piece to make it marketable, or disco up Beethoven in an honest effort to make it "cool" or add some bad lyrics or some such nonsense. I still laugh in a "that's so bad!" way. But this arrangement, and others like it that wink knowingly at what they're doing, can be a source of genuine amusement. As someone who has been on the music scene professionally, a little levity every now and then is certainly welcomed.
coliamkit 4 years ago 2
It's called parody. Having money???? No one got paid at this fundraiser for a volunteer choral society, and as you can see, the classical music fans in the audience LOVED it. Here's what other opera singers are saying on their forum:
"I love it. Hilarious, but doesn't 'dumb down' the aria. More of this kind of thing, please!" (zwischen) and
2beanut 4 years ago
"I was watching the video for the third or fourth time. It's funny, clever, witty, and to me, it's even moving. It is not a vulgarization of the aria, unlikemost attempts to apply popular genres to classical pieces. These performers have taken an aria that, because of its sentimentality and extreme popularity, invites parody, have applied an utterly incongruous mode of music-making to it, and the really extraordinary thing, shown how the two fit together. A rare achievement."
-baritonobasso
2beanut 4 years ago
Oh, please, it's a fundraiser.
This is hilarious and it works on many layered levels. And, you obviously missed the "oohs" generated by the beautiful floated"Pieta" shortly before the final cadence.
Get a sense of humor or you will never survive the business.
divamaria 4 years ago
Best laugh I've had all day! Daddy, won'tcha help me, indeed! And the soprano wasn't half bad either!
DIva1112 4 years ago
Bravissimi! Giacomo Puccini would be proud!!!
Holmuse 4 years ago
It's just brilliant!! Bravi to you all!!
scottreiburn 4 years ago
>.< That's great!!!
Riikara 4 years ago
Wow, that is awesome. I wonder how an entire production of Gianni Schicchi or Boheme or Butterfly would turn out.
thewccccoolguy 4 years ago
Actually, Inna *has* played Mimi in La Boheme, but I agree I'd love to see how that'd work backed up by the GrooveBarbers. ^_^
ongakunotenshi 4 years ago
i love it! it's funny, and good! what more can you ask for?!?!
gmr2broadway 4 years ago
Brilliant! Greetings Sean and Inna. Alvaro
earvinarp 4 years ago
Sean, you make me miss the Rockapella that was when I see this.
When are you guys going to release a non-Christmas CD or, even better, a DVD?
ShelaghCol 4 years ago
Love it. Just darn love it.
foolishfoolishheart 4 years ago
this rocks on so many levels!
DramaAaron 4 years ago
sweet mother of god
Mazerthehazer 4 years ago
Okay - that was flippin' awesome :)
MonaCK 4 years ago
O bambina!
iami17 4 years ago
WOW. Great arrangement Sean. Great pipes Inna. Great singing and facial over-acting, Barbers del Groovio.
sleepysleek 4 years ago
Oh that's hilarious!!! Inna sounds gorgeous as always too!!
rcsop 4 years ago
Inna! You rock! You atre sounding better than ever and I'm proud to be your colleage and friend.
Eric
snowru 4 years ago
this is so cute and funny! beautiful voice!
hollabelle 4 years ago
Side effects of this Doo-Opera include standing ovations, clapping, cheering, hooting and/or hollering.
Mojitobabe 4 years ago