Offenbach: Famous Orchestral Highlights (Reynald Giovaninetti - Monte-Carlo National Orchestra)

JACQUES OFFENBACH (1819-1880)
Famous Orchestral Highlights from Operas
01. Orpheus in the Underworld - Overture I (0:10)
02. Orpheus in the Underworld - Galop (Act IV) (8:50)
03. Orpheus in the Underworld - Overture II (10:53)
04. The Tales of Hoffman - Entr'acte (Act II) (20:27)
05. The Tales of Hoffman - Entr'acte & Barcarolle (Act III) (21:51)
06. The Drum-Major's Daughter - Overture (25:45)
07. Madame Favart - Overture (32:45)
08. The Grand Duchess of Gerolstein - Overture (37:47)
09. La Perichole - Entr'acte (Act II) & Entr'acte (2nd tableau - Act III) (42:05)
10. La Belle Helene - Entr'acte (Act II) (49:34)
Monte-Carlo National Opera Orchestra
conducted by REYNALD GIOVANINETTI
Vinyl LP: "Concert Hall/Guilde International Disque" Label
- Catalogue Number SMS 2743

[@KellieEverts--conductsNightTra]

He just makes me smile, laugh & dance around. What a great genius! Amazing!

[@carolinekuszak2952]

Merci Monsieur Offenbach de nous avoir laissé cette musique pleine d'humour, de joie. Du bonheur à l'état pur !

[@ElioColagioia-re4bg]

Cette musique est magnifique; l ´esprit vrai d´un siécle glorieux. Aujourd´hui nous manque la finesse de quels jours. Sans doute!

[@shin-i-chikozima]

This famous melody is vigorous and comfortable to the ears and the mind

[@ogrejd]

What I like about Offenbach is that his music is almost always FUN. Most other composers seem to have taken themselves far too seriously. Most pictures of Offenbach I've seen make him look like he's just waiting for you to turn your back so he can place a whoopie cushion for you to sit on. :)

[@juanjosemarquezmendez5933]

Offembach, nos, deleita con su musiqua maravillosa y a la vez levanta el animo para empezar un nuevo dia , con espiritu renovado

[@nmatavka]

Well, considering he's the French Gilbert and Sullivan, you very much have a point. His operas are all broad comedies-there's even a cartoon with a woman stepping into a cab, asking the cabbie to take her to Orpheus, and he asks her, "The one that's boring [Orfeo ed Euridice by Gluck] or the one that's funny [Orphée aux Enfers by Offenbach]?"

[@nmatavka]

"He was no more serious there than he had been at the conservatoire, and regularly had his pay docked for *playing pranks during performances*; on one occasion, he and the principal cellist played alternate notes of the printed score, and on another they sabotaged some of their colleagues' music stands to make them collapse in mid-performance." Yep. Whoopie cushion.

[@georgiana6598]

As a professional violinist, playing this has given me severe repetitive strain injuries. And makes conductors turn into Danny Kaye. Loads of amphetamines needed and no page Turner. Just shit your pants and dive in. It's alliteration with bells on. I got tendinitis alot. Don't we just love it though. The green room afterwards has gas and air masks for the brass lads and girls. Beforehand we all look at each other and hope we will all make it. A few of us have a big smile. And a big deep breath😂 aaand..we're off. Bloody hell! 😂😂

[@ramonbenach3092]

Feia temps que no sentia a Offenbach i és una joia tornar-lo a sentir!!!! És una música alegre i encantadora, que anima l'esperit!!!

[@ArthurCSchaper]

I have been looking for a recording of the original overture for Orphee aux enfers the longest time. I am so glad that you reproduced it here.

[@MegaCanelita1]

OFFENBACH FANTASTICO!!!!.

[@boubouneff5391]

Musique divine, arrangement remarquable, superbe orchestre et excellente prise de son 😊🎖

[@CarlosVargas-ip2en]

Es fantástica !!!!!

[@jericarguelles-yd6zc]

So amazing to hear🥹

[@alex9920iasi]

extremely beautiful music...

[@ericandrey2]

c'est de la musique de divertissement, signe d'une époque ou tout n'était pas si rose, ni si définitif pour chaque citoyen de cette drôle d’Europe(vous me direz que maintenant c'est pas plus clair, alors, vite un nouveau Offenbach. svp!!!

[@richardduployen6429]

I think nowadays we'd like to hear more of the unusual sometimes short introductions e. g. "Orphée" 1858 sometimes overtures e.g. Orphée expanded 1874. This is as good as the Binder overture just different. The Antonio de Almeida collection (on KZbin) is still one of the best with some ballet music. The German overtures are sometimes expanded. the Jacques Offenbach Society.

[@ninirosso9866]

Veramente meraviglioso! Complimenti e saluti dall'Argentina!🇦🇷👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[@josemamachuca7939]

Cet auteur transforme les histoires en musique et est très expressif dans sa musique joyeuse et florale

[@georgiana6598]

Dan's la burlesque qui est de la compositeur repetitive. Belle est la ❤

[@luciev6954]

Sublime!...

[@kodama44]

This is enchanting! Flagrance and esprit!

[@BalbirSingh-gr2qk]

This string number is beautiful.

[@sdorr]

Many thanks for preparing and uploading these charming pieces!

[@Pedy1968]

Wonderful!!

[@Marcus-78]

Belle musique d'Offenbach, à l'époque du Paris impérial des années 1860 ...

[@dejanstevanic5408]

Thank you.

[@alex9920iasi]

Oh my God, how much I wish I would have lived in that era instead...

[@josueelias1356]

Ya man I mean it do kinda suck having indoor toilets and electricity 🤷‍♂️

[@alex9920iasi]

@@josueelias1356 soon we wont even have that when the civilisation will enter in a collapse because of climate change

[@dennisdispenza7211]

Lived in Paris in an earlier lifetime, in Medieval times between c. 1200 to 1300 AD. Paris was a Medieval town surrounded by rolling wooded hills and pasture land. There was a large white Cathedral in the center of the city, with narrow cobblestone streets lined with wooden one and two story antique appearing rustic houses. Very beautiful on an early summer morning!

[@MostIngenious]

I know what you mean! G&S were obviously indebted to Offenbach, and I wish someone would produce Trial By Jury / La Périchole as a double bill as it was originally presented in London. I just got through performing in the chorus of Les Contes d'Hoffmann and I can't get those melodies out of my head!

[@Harryset1]

Bravo! Danke! thanks for the upload.

[@tipiepascale91]

que dire de plus SUPERBE....!!!

[@metal4142]

MITICO !

[@dulcineadeltoboso5037]

Simplemente Maravilloso Gracias

[@luismallma9540]

Espectacular!

[@marchess286]

thank you

[@willyanqui9690]

why is so beatiful

[@martiglesias60]

The second ouverture (the most famous) was written by Carl Binder, he took themes from Offenbachs Orpheus in the underworld to make "his" ouverture. The 'can can' can you hear on the second ouv.

[@jvdesuit1]

Offenbach was not the creator of the Can Can which was invented some 20 years after his death. If you want a complete understanding of how he composed his works read Jean-Claude Yon biographie and go to www.offenbach-edition.com/EN/oek/default where you'll find a complete critical edition of Offenbach's works by Jean-Christophe Keck which is considered the reference for this great composer so unjustly treated during his lifetime and even today by many so called musicians who consider this music second rate not to say vulgar.

[@nmatavka]

@@jvdesuit1 By Can Can is obviously meant the Galop Infernal, as synecdoche, even though nobody actually *dances* the can-can to the Galop Infernal as far as Orphée is concerned. And Offenbach did in fact write the Galop.

[@BalbirSingh-gr2qk]

Great.

[@jean-francoiscouperin8260]

PURE MERVEILLE !!!!!

[@SiyiZhou]

I want Madame Favart - Overture seperately a video

[@gregorywright2640]

Yes We Can Can!

[@richardcleveland8549]

"We're having a heat wave" . . . "She certainly can Can-Can!"

[@poppycocksa]

He was such a nice man.

[@dennisdispenza7211]

Quite Wildest of Music!

[@dankurth4232]

You want the real wild Offenbach thing? Get it here kzbin.info/www/bejne/iqbHhIWme9B3qNE

[@pelis331]

avec la qualité des disques vinyl analogiques Rien a voir avec la sécheresse des mp3 Sur bon ampli avec des grosses enceintes c'est un régal Merci Jacques

[@60bui]

Molto interessante, divertente.

[@hpeerdeman7004]

herman peerdeman orchestraal net zo getikt, en dus virtuoos, als papagini op viool can can uit orpheus in onderwereld zit er volgens mij nog niet eens in, doch besluit met la belle helene, dat voor mij de complete aandoenlijke verganklijkheid aanreikt, gelukkig

[@user-dh3in4tv3d]

🎉sensacional,

[@celineridard948]

la Belle Hélène c'est trop génial. Difficile de rester insensible à l humour du livret de Meilhac et Halevy et à tous ces airs si entraînants

[@richardcleveland8549]

I grew up on Gilbert & Sullivan, and although I certainly heard Offenbach favorites like the Infernal Galop over the years, I didn't really get to know his work until 30 years ago when a local company did a really fine production of "Orphee" - and I've been hooked since. I have CDs or LPs of 8 or 9 of his operettas - and while I love G&S, I adore Offenbach! Thanks for posting this.

[@nmatavka]

G&S cribbed from Offenbach and adjusted it to be more English (chuckles instead of belly laughs). So no wonder you like both-as do I. (I *hate* the excessively serious kind of opera; the Magic Flute is great, but then you get into stuff like La Traviata. Ugh.)

[@richardcleveland8549]

@@nmatavka Ummmmmmm . . . und Herr Vognerr?? 🤣

[@nmatavka]

@@richardcleveland8549 Oddly enough I enjoy Wagner; but then again, his source materials are Germanic epics rather than melodrama (not in the technical sense, i.e. "instrumental music underscoring spoken dialogue" as the live-drama equivalent of "film score"). I meant much more Tosca and I Pagliacci.

[@richardcleveland8549]

@@nmatavka Umm, it was Signor Crescendo himself who wrote "Monsieur Wagner has good moments, but awful quarters of an hour!" Of COURSE, Signor Rossini NEVER had the chance to hear *A*N*N*A* *R*U*S*S*E*L*L* (She of Blessed Memory!) give her 21-minute explanation of Der Ring!

[@harryandruschak2843]

You learn something new every day, even at age 72. I had not known that Offenbach had written *TWO* overtures for Orpheus in the Underworld. So today I heard a new piece of music for the first time. But in all honesty, the second and far more well known version makes the first sound so blah. Maybe that is why the composer did write the second version?

[@luciev6954]

Offenbach is quite viarous, whe had better to discover his complete œuvre !

[@AndreEssen]

Nothing to learn ... Offenbach never composed an Overture. Only the introduction. "Die 1860 uraufgeführte Wiener Bearbeitung des Orpheus stammt vermutlich von Johann Nestroy, der auch die Rolle des Jupiter übernahm. Bei dieser wurde auch die Ouvertüre uraufgeführt, die Carl Binder komponierte." So the 1st is by Karl Binder - i have no idea who put this peace here together. - I see - i got to Binders "Overture" the 3rd piece...

[@notmyworld44]

Beethoven wrote 3 entracte overtures for Fidelio (Leonore I, II, III). It happens! And just for fun one of the Hoffnung Music Festivals provided a spoofy Leonore IV. You have to know Leonore III to enjoy Leonore IV.

[@mattrieckenberg]

From what I read online, Offenbach never wrote the overture we know today. John Binder wrote it using motives from the operetta

[@dankurth4232]

@@notmyworld44 I guess you are referring to the opera ...

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[@Mdebacle]

What is listed as The Tales of Hoffman - Entr'acte (Act II) is actually Act I.

[@claudiogiombi]

Che peccato oggi non si riesce più a divertirsi come allora

[@waniakarlalouzadamoura9021]

The first overture is original, the second being writtenJeanCarl Binder, at the request of Offenbach. Currently, excerpts from the original are performed during the singing of the characters of the operetta.

[@logancollins6095]

Merci! Thanks! Makes me wonder how Gilbert and Sullivan are so popular and Offenbach's work is sadly seldom produced in the US! C'est dommage!

[@BytomGirl]

There is so much beautiful music completely ignored, I have been trying to find CDs of Drigo and Pugni ballets and it is impossible and their music is wonderful. And there are so many wonderful operettas you rarely see...

[@rogerpropes7129]

Offenbach was a Jew who composed in a foreign language from G & S--need I say more?

[@rogerpropes7129]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/poe4lYWhma1jhcWHtart here, music by Pugni, originally conducted by Drigo, who lived until 1930!

[@richardcleveland8549]

AND, much of Offenbach is decidedly of a higher quality than Sullivan's music - don't get me wrong, I love G&S, but the average amateur cast for ANY G&S production would be hard-put to tackle Orphee or Grand Duchesse. Offenbach is my go-to guy for operetta at its best (ALTHOUGH, it's hard to beat a really, REALLY great Fledermaus!); c'est magnifique!

[@jeremycricklewood1717]

Offenbach had converted to catholicism and was married to a Spanish catholic lady.

[@MegaCirse]

Si vous voulez être de bonne humeur, écoutez Offenbach! Cependant après les accidents de la guerre franco-prussienne en 1870, le compositeur, fut accusé de saper le moral des troupes en "poursuivant les dieux grecs antiques" (!). La raison de la défaite de la France était plutôt clairement l'incompétence et l'insuffisance militaire ;-)

[@ivonediaz2967]

is beautiful I like me

[@RoseCadenza]

I've been looking for the song The Drum-Major's Daughter. I'm playing it in a band. (Tenor Sax)

[@jvdesuit1]

Is that what you're looking for kzbin.info/www/bejne/p5qumHWtrJubqMU

[@RoseCadenza]

@@jvdesuit1 I honestly don't know. I made the comment about 5 years ago, and I don't remember playing something called "The Drum-Major's Daughter". 😅😂

[@raulduran394]

The Can can is in minute 18.13

[@gonzikk]

18:20 golden

[@danielhernandez2484]

rikk for teck haka truken loch rein manic yotambo reliz cutry!!!

[@phaxo2908]

18:23 ^^^^^ I HOPE ITS CAN CAN

[@sivanesaray233]

Quel est le nom du premier morceaux ? Ca ne fait pas partie de Orphée aux Enfers. Quelqu'un a t-il une idée ? Merci !

[@jeanfrancoisdupont755]

+Sivane Saray bonhjour c'est indiqué sur l'image c'est la belle helène

[@sivanesaray233]

+jeanfrançois Dupont Je vous remercie jeanfrançois Dupont

[@bruno180163]

non le premier morceau est est bien de Orphée aux Enfers

[@francois-lucgauthiervillen6655]

Je confirme que les premières notes sont un arrangement de l'ouverture d' 'Orphée aux Enfers'.

[@mattrieckenberg]

Je pense que c’est la vrai ouverture et pas celui de Jean Binder

[@robertosolito1276]

...corri Jacque corri...non ti fermeranno mai...

[@chrisplusplus6232]

who else is here because of a scene from the movie, Life is Beautiful

[@spencermarkham1]

I would rather listen to Offenbach than Bach often.

[@nmatavka]

He'd chuckle at that.

[@jaxdachamp2130]

Music for men with REAL weapons, and posh play styles.

[@richardcleveland8549]

P.S. AND . . . Monsieur Offenbach has a WONDERFUL musical comedy face! Too bad Napoleon III wasn't as smart as Jacques!

[@thiswan1]

Didn't he sing Their Coming to take me away haha

[@richardcleveland8549]

@@thiswan1 No . . . THAT was Enrico Caruso, as an encore after he sang "Pagliacci" for the first at the old Metropolitan Opera House November 23, 1903 . . . the audience was absolutely electroplated!

[@ricardoteixeira7947]

where is can can

[@houdisdonc]

le cancan est à 18m26

[@ricardoteixeira7947]

thanks

[@louloudenice1]

18mn20

[@phaxo2908]

18:23

[@notmyworld44]

It's full of garbage garbage so can not be presented here.

[@crpond3699]

22:32

[@bennnhold]

cuático eso

[@canman5060]

The can can was considered taboo and obscene in the 19th century !

[@jeremycricklewood1717]

Because the girls didn't wear knickers.

[@Delaney-nh8yb]

20:14

[@billjohnroe2962]

20:13/20:14

[@brianmbarton7945]

Bad ground loop hum.

[@dianemckimmy471]

20:15 #cancan

[@Delaney-nh8yb]

18:14 can can anyone?

[@dianemckimmy471]

#orphéeauxenfers

[@dianemckimmy471]

#infernalgalop

[@flaminggaming5295]

Parlez français

[@jeremycricklewood1717]

Pourquoi? Le français est une langue moribunde.

[@raimondbernasconi9062]

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[@raimondbernasconi9062]

Du Offenbach interprété par un orchestre de choix et dirigé par un maitre qui a compris Offenbach

[@pierremokhtari9057]

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[@jaysoncarroll272]

Dunkaf

[@Lvovrusteatr]

Klezmer music!He was jew

[@geoffreyrogg3018]

So what, so was Mendelssohn, Mahler, Schoenberg and countless others. Wagner was a Jew hater, so what. Whatever and whoever they were they had God given gift, that of composing wonderful music that lifts us from the mundane into the exquisite realms.

[@RoseCadenza]

He was jew. So I'm part jew. (I am actually part jew)

[@anitabuffi1467]

il volo

[@eladhevron7057]

+Hannah the Musician I'm full Jewish and I'm really sad that a lot of people are hate us :(

[@Lvovrusteatr]

no its compliment

[@krmi2489]

So bad like noobs in league of legends

[@filipin5ki]

Nie polecam Beznadzieja okropne