Opera Singer ANALYZES Gojira Olympics Performance of 'Ah! Ça Ira' at the Conciergerie Palace

When I heard Gojira was performing at the Olympics Opening Ceremony for the 2024 Summer Olympics, I knew this was going to be special. Couple with that having Marina Viotti singing on a wooden ship in front of the Conciergerie Palace? Insanity that I have to be a part of! Enjoy this analysis, all! I hope it happens 100x more!

Join professional opera singer Elizabeth Zharoff, as she listens to Gojira performing "Ah! Ça Ira" in front of the Conciergerie Palace for the 2024 Summer Olympics.
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Performed by Gojira, Marina Viotti - Words and Music by the French Revolutionaries!
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Elizabeth Zharoff is an international opera singer and voice coach, with 3 degrees in voice, opera, and music production. She's performed in 18 languages throughout major venues in Europe, America, and Asia. Currently based somewhere between Los Angeles and Tucson, Arizona, Elizabeth spends her days researching voice, singing, teaching, writing music, and recording TONS. She also plays Diablo and Dungeons & Dragons.
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[derekk]

It took the whole world to come together to get Mario to wear a shirt

[Notthemikeurlookin]

A metal band performing a revolutionary song on the building where the aristocracy was held prisoner and condemned, has to be the most metal thing to ever happen. Historic.

[marcelocabral]

Elizabeth three years ago: "Im not a metalhead".

Elizabeth today: giggling and smiling at Gojira's gutural vocals while seeing blood splattering from decapited aristocrats.

Our work here is done, guys.

[Caporal_Blutch]

Symbolism of this scene :


- The song "Ah ça ira" (Ah it will be ok) was a famous song that french queen Marie-Antoinette liked to hum, whose origin would be from Benjamin Franklin (in France around 1780) who answered "ça ira, ça ira" (it will be ok, it will be ok) every time he was asked for news about the American Revolutionary War.
In 1790, the revolutionaries changed the words of the original song to make murderous apostrophes against the nobility and clergy.


- The deca.pitated woman is, of course, the queen Marie-Antoinette.
Marie-Antoinette of Habsburg, Imperial Princess of Hungary and Bohemia, last daughter of the Holy Roman Emperor Francis the First, became queen of France in 1774 when her husband, Louis the Sixteen, go to the throne.
When revolution began in 1789 and for several years, the Austrian empire and all the monarchies of Europe threaten the French people with reprisals if they do not restore the French monarchy. In 1791, the royal family tried to flee to Austria but was arrested in a small town called Varennes and brought back to Paris. In 1792, is the famous "Brunswick Manifesto", distributed in the streets of Paris, written by the the Prussian army chief Brunswick, ordering the French to restore immediately the king on the throne.
It will have the opposite effect. The french royal family is then considered as traitors by the French, because negotiating with foreign enemies who wants to stop the revolutionnary ideas, the republic, and return to the monarchy.
In January 1793, King Louis was sentenced to death for perjury and executed. Same year in October, Marie-Antoinette is tried for high-treason and sent to the guillotine.
The two years that will follow, a period called "The Terror", should be studied by all those who think that a revolution is always something beautiful and romantic...


- The castle is a medieval castle called "La Conciergerie", in the center of Paris. It is a museum today, but during the revolution it was a courthouse and a prison.
It's exactly here that queen Marie-Antoinette and the royal family were imprisoned, with thousands of aristocrats, before being sent to the guillotine.


- The guy holding the fire flame in front of the palace is a reference to the video game "Assassin’s Creed" and the French Tech (Ubisoft Studio is a french compagny).


- The boat is a symbol of the city of Paris, whose motto is "Fluctua nec mergitur" (latin words for "Struck by the waves but does not sink"), who passes over monarchy.


- The lyric singer (Marina Viotti) sings the famous opera Carmen, and symbolizes Lady Marianne.
Marianne represents a revolutionary woman, with a Phrygian cap on the head (revolutionary emblem). Today this woman is the symbol of the French Republic, its representation is everywhere, and its bust present in all town halls and public buildings of France, or as French administration logo.
She is this woman with naked breast, holding a French flag in one hand and a rifle in other hand, in the center of the famous painting by Delacroix, "Liberty leading the People", visible at the Louvre museum... or above a Coldplay music album ;)


- Obviously, all these red fireworks symbolizes blood, noble's blood, because a lot was poured during the ten years constituting the French revolutionary time (from 1789 to 1799), before a guy called Napoleon took power and came to restore order and unity in French society.


- Some say the audacity of puting heavy metal for an Olympic ceremony is a response to the terrorist attacks in November 2015 in Paris, where 130 people were killed, including 90 in the Bataclan concert hall, during a concert of the American metal band "Eagles of Death Metal".

[BonBaisers]

I am parisian, I was there, I never listen to metal music but I loved every millisecond of that scene and music. Now I have my first death metal playlist on my spotify 🤩

[williamzebub]

It's so nice that the Olympics got invited to a Gojira concert.

[yazouu]

The building is « La Conciergerie » and it’s the place where Marie-Antoinette (the wife of King Louis XVI) was imprisoned before getting decapited buy the guillotine during the French Revolution. And the song was mainly sang during this period, it’s about hanging the aristocracy.
The guitare Joe is playing is not it’s usual guitar, it’s a ESP Custom Model which represents the blade of the guillotine.

[Me_Grimlock_King]

I cried when i saw this performance. Never in my wildest dreams did I think I'd see a heavy metal group recognized in this way and there is no band that could have pulled this off better than Gojira.

[_goslo_]

As a french metalhead i am SO proud of Gojira, they nailed it SO hard! Horns up to all the melalhead folks around the world 🤘

[samuelchallis]

9:18 “so this is chest voice”, which is actually really impressive to do when your head isn’t attached to your body

[megleland]

Gojira is truly in their Dethklok Era at the Paris Olympics. I honestly expected the walls of that castle to crumble under all that METAL!

[martinpaddle]

Marina is a big metal fan and on her Instagram is fangirling over getting the chance to sing with Gojira

[davidberkowitz]

This performance made me bawl. I'm a 50 yr. old metalhead for the entirety of my life. To see the music that I dearly love FINALLY gain this level of legitimacy is everything.

[tuomashelin]

As a Finn I'm proud, that the mixing of opera and metal, like Nightwish and Gojira, has been brought to mainstream entertainment without diluting. I never thought I would hear a double bass drum beat in an olympic opening. Marina Viotti is a metal music fan ? Excellent ! I was equally astonished by the performance of Celine Dion, she poured her heart out in her version of an Edith Piaf classic.

[mattrobinson]

0:44 was exactly how every single metal head reacted at the same exact moment. If you say you didn’t, you’re lying.

[andromidius]

You have to hand it to the French.. They go hard and are unashamedly unique.

[mattmorin]

The wife and kids were worried about me when I saw this live... I lost my mind. How cool they allowed crews to shoot smoke and pyrotechnics out of a historic building - and hang band members out of windows. They never rehearsed this in person or on site according to Joe's interview with Rolling Stone. This was a one shot deal

[FooFighterer]

Where’s the petition? I’ll sign it! I want a full up metal opera of the French Revolution and this song.

[damixr]

Merci ! J'adore tes réactions depuis longtemps. J'adore Gojira et j'ai adoré la cérémonie d'ouverture des jeux olympiques🤘❤️

[fredericsarter]

Great video, thanks! I don't know if you noticed (took me a while actually!), but the pure metal growl at 18:52 is actually done by... Marina Viotti, the (wonderful) mezzo-soprano herself! As it happens, before turning to opera, she sang and screamed in several metal bands (notably one called Soulmaker) - she is still a metal fan and as you can hear, is still able to put on a mighty roar right after a classical lyric vocalise. Also the voice of "Marie-Antoinette" in the intro is actually a male singer from the choir of the Orchestre de Paris - one of the leading symphonic SATB choirs in Paris - and the other Marie-Antoinettes at the windows are other choir members (both male and female).