好歹咱们是正大光明。洋人为了隐瞒，可都是逼着演员签NDA。 http://www.theage.com.au/national/great-olympic-musical-deceptions-of-our-time-20080823-40z9.html SYDNEY has its Opera House - but has it got a real orchestra? Within days of NSW Premier Morris Iemma making unwise cracks about Melbourne being left off the World Monopoly board, The Sunday Age can reveal that the Sydney Symphony Orchestra mimed key parts of its performance at the opening of the Sydney Games in 2000. And it gets better - it was, in fact, the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra whose brilliant playing was heard by millions around the world at the Sydney Olympic opening ceremony. The MSO's superior sounds (pre-recorded just for the ceremony) were played as the orchestra went through the motions - the showbiz short cut of using "backing tapes", usually done to carry ageing or incompetent performers. Remember Milli Vanilli? So, when everyone was tut-tutting about seven-year-old singer Yang Peiyi being replaced by the "prettier" Lin Miaoke for the Beijing Games opening two weeks ago, there must have been much squirming at the SSO's Pitt Street headquarters. For eight years it has been one of the best-kept secrets in Sin City. When The Sunday Age contacted SSO conductor George "The Big G" Ellis last week, he was not overjoyed. "I am unable to comment because I have signed a confidentiality agreement," Ellis said after an uncomfortable pause. It is believed that all the orchestra's musicians also had to sign confidentiality agreements, but the miming was common knowledge among Melbourne musicians whose work had been recorded to help out their Sydney counterparts. SOCOG officials had ordered pre-recorded backing tapes for the entire ceremony to ensure nothing could go wrong on Sydney's big night. This included Nikki Webster's solo, Under Southern Skies and Human Nature and Julie Anthony singing the national anthem.