"Do you hear the People Sing?" sung by 17 Jean Valjeans from around the world

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This gives me the opportunity to post the video of the ROK (South Korean) Air Force parody, Les Militaribles. The officers playing Javert and Valjean are, respectively, a graduate of an college opera program and a student in such a program. Cosette's voice is more of a musical theater/pop one. (And yes, she totally goes flat on an early high note, but otherwise her performance is fine, just not operatic.) Subtitles are in Hangul (Korean) and English.

 

Funny and, to my untrained ear, well sung. Thanks for posting it, QuothTheRaven.

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Funny and, to my untrained ear, well sung. Thanks for posting it, QuothTheRaven.

 

You're welcome! What really makes it is how low the stakes are compared to Les Miz -- Les Miz has jail and rebellion, and here what's at stake is snow shoveling (aka the Korean air force equivalent of KP duty, it seems), an angry superior officer, a girlfriend who's tired of taking second place to the military, and his friends commiserating with him afterward. It's so trivial compared to the original, and yet the performers give it their all. The male chorus is hilarious.