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This whole segment is based on telling a lie to the viewing public.
If the audition process is anything like American Idol, this kid would already have been through two, possibly three rounds of local auditions before getting anywhere near the official judges, and certainly anywhere near a television camera.
The producers would have known exactly how this young man could sing, because he would have had to do that song, in that outfit and that makeup, at least once or twice before. They may not have told the judges what to expect, but certainly the young man can't honestly say he's "never sung for anyone before".
By the way, if he sings this song "like a girl" it's because the aria he is singing is written for a woman. It's "O Mio Babbino Caro" --- "O My Dear Daddy" --- from "Gianni Schicchi", the third part of Puccini's "Il Trittico". It's the young woman Lauretta pleading with her father to let her marry her boyfriend Rinuccio, who is handsome and whom she loves. If she can't marry him, she threatens to throw herself of the bridge into the Arno River in Florence, because she is suffering so much from love for him that she wants to die.
If the audition process is anything like American Idol, this kid would already have been through two, possibly three rounds of local auditions before getting anywhere near the official judges, and certainly anywhere near a television camera.
The producers would have known exactly how this young man could sing, because he would have had to do that song, in that outfit and that makeup, at least once or twice before. They may not have told the judges what to expect, but certainly the young man can't honestly say he's "never sung for anyone before".
By the way, if he sings this song "like a girl" it's because the aria he is singing is written for a woman. It's "O Mio Babbino Caro" --- "O My Dear Daddy" --- from "Gianni Schicchi", the third part of Puccini's "Il Trittico". It's the young woman Lauretta pleading with her father to let her marry her boyfriend Rinuccio, who is handsome and whom she loves. If she can't marry him, she threatens to throw herself of the bridge into the Arno River in Florence, because she is suffering so much from love for him that she wants to die.
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Don't know if it makes a difference, but the experiments were actually done in 1973, not exactly "a few years ago".
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The sign says "Gosstroy of Russia", and has a Soviet emblem, I think. According to wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gosstroy), the Gosstroy was the . . . wait for it . . .
"State Committee for Construction."
This just made my day.