{"id":20913,"date":"2026-05-05T13:45:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T13:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/20913\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T13:45:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T13:45:14","slug":"emmanuel-macron-sings-la-boheme-as-armenias-prime-minister-plays-the-drums-during-official-dinner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/20913\/","title":{"rendered":"Emmanuel Macron sings La Boh\u00e8me as Armenia&#8217;s prime minister plays the drums during official dinner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title = \"Emmanuel Macron sings La Boh\u00e8me as Armenia&#039;s prime minister plays the drums during official dinner\"   width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/O4tzcFisEv0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\nEmmanuel Macron sings La Boh\u00e8me as Armenia&#8217;s prime minister plays the drums during official dinner<br \/>\n<br \/>\nFrance\u2019s president donned his crooning hat during a state dinner on Monday, leading Armenian leaders in a rendition of La boh\u00e8me, the 1965 song by the late French-Armenian singer Charles Aznavour.<br \/>\nSubscribe to Guardian News on YouTube \u25ba https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/guardianwires?sub_confirmation=1<\/p>\n<p>The Armenian president, Vahagn Khatchatourian, stood by Macron\u2019s side and the prime minister, Nikol Pashinyan \u2013 who has recently started a band \u2013 joined in on drums.<\/p>\n<p>Aznavour, who died in 2018 at the age of 94, often served as a cultural bridge between France and Armenia \u2013 a role that was on full display at the state dinner.<\/p>\n<p>To read diplomatic editor Patrick Wintour\u2019s report from Yerevan tap to the link \u25ba https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/may\/05\/macron-backs-armenia-pro-europe-pm-nikol-pashinyan-re-election<\/p>\n<p>#emmanuelmacron #laboheme #armenia #politics<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Emmanuel Macron sings La Boh\u00e8me as Armenia&#8217;s prime minister plays the drums during official dinner France\u2019s president donned&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20914,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[11599,24224,24222,24223,24215,24231,24193,24217,59,50,24226,24225,2209,24228,240,261,24194,24230,24221,24216,24213,24218,24214,24219,24220,31,17802,24227,247,24229,1442,24195,8095],"class_list":{"0":"post-20913","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-guardian-news","8":"tag-armenia","9":"tag-armenia-latest","10":"tag-armenia-news","11":"tag-armenia-today","12":"tag-armenian","13":"tag-banger","14":"tag-charles-aznavour","15":"tag-emannuel-macron","16":"tag-emmanuel-macron","17":"tag-france","18":"tag-france-latest","19":"tag-france-news","20":"tag-french","21":"tag-french-president","22":"tag-guardian","23":"tag-guardian-news","24":"tag-la-boheme","25":"tag-macron-for-sure","26":"tag-macron-news","27":"tag-macron-sing","28":"tag-macron-singing","29":"tag-macron-singing-in-armenia","30":"tag-macron-singing-la-boheme","31":"tag-macron-sings-la-boheme","32":"tag-macron-song","33":"tag-news","34":"tag-nikol-pashinyan","35":"tag-politician-singing","36":"tag-politics","37":"tag-president-macron","38":"tag-the-guardian","39":"tag-vahagn-khatchatourian","40":"tag-yerevan"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20913\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}