La Belle Helene: Act II finale (Kasarova '97)

[mjwemdee]

Beautifully sung, but the direction is a mess. The chorus have not been told what to do, it looks like everyone's making up their own staging. Such a shame, because this could be a wonderful French bedroom farce told in mock operatic style. The director is either lazy or incompetent.

[documentaryscene]

Morgen, 13.06.2011 gibt sie ein Konzert in Berlin (Konzerthaus, 20 Uhr) !!!

Tomorrow she is in concert in Berlin (Konzerthaus, 13.06.2011) !!!

[papillondenuit1970]

c'est une femme ça??.....

[vivegedda]

Not very frenchstyle. I've heard much better!!

[roseeduliban]

mon air prefere!

[laetitiabee]

J'aime vraiment beaucoup cette opérette ^^

Merci d'avoir mis la vidéo.,en plus avec les paroles

[oberscla]

It's rather difficult to understand the lyrics sung in French by Kasarova...and in Offenbach, the lyrics is more than half the fun.

[Alicuche2]

You have forgotten Carlos Chausson!

[SDCmorg]

Arggghhh! I did indeed. Thanks for the good catch, Alicuche. :o)

[Spinple]

Althought I think Deon Van Der Walt is not a great singer,I like he's voice,very sad about his death

[SDCmorg]

That was a sad death indeed, Spinple. Thanks for stopping by! :o)

[Arashi110]

I was laughing my head off when first watching this performance. Totally loved Nikiteanu's Oreste and, of course, Kasarova's Helen. And I thought it was kinda cruel of my teacher to have me sing 'On me nomme Hélène la blonde' at the very beginning of our studies. %)

[SDCmorg]

It is such a fun show indeed! :o) And Nikiteanu's Oreste is so spunky (I first saw this show right after watching the Gotz Friedrich film of Elektra, quite a paradigm-shift!).

Wow! And your teacher sure didn't take it easy on you. :o) I bet it's a lot harder to sing funny song than it appears to us audience, ay? Good goin', matie!

[Arashi110]

Worst of all is the famous 'Ave Maria' by Caccini. Noe THAT is tough, I daresay.

[operamusicfan]

Maybe you should change teachers :P

[Arashi110]

Nah, I should try harder.

[operamusicfan]

But make sure you don't sing things that you shouldn't be singing yet (or ever) so that you don't ruin your voice :)

[eddi1178]

Fantastic Kasarova and Harnoncourt, but ugly the costuming.

[SDCmorg]

Heh, heh. I thought it's kind of cute, you know, like they're playing a grade school nativity play. I keep looking for a donkey to walk in. ;oP

But the musical performance is wonderful indeed. Thanks Gobbi & eddi for stopping by! :o)

[Spinple]

Well,I like the costume of it,because La Belle Hélène is a really humorous story and this kind of design is mroe funny.

[Gobbi2007]

Man! Harnoncourt. Fantastic.