Notre-Dame de Paris (musical)

Notre-Dame de Paris
Notre-Dame de Paris – English version (CD cover)
MusicRiccardo Cocciante
LyricsLuc Plamondon (French lyrics)
Will Jennings (English lyrics)
BookLuc Plamondon
BasisVictor Hugo's novel The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Productions1998 Paris
1999 International tour
2000 Las Vegas
2000 West End
2001 Paris
2001 Barcelona
2002 Italy tour
2002 Moscow
2005 International tour
2005 Montreal
2007 South Korea tour
2010 Antwerp
2010 Concert tour
2011 Italy tour
2012 International tour
2013 Seoul
2014 International tour
2016 Italy tour
2016 Seoul
2016 Gdynia
2016 Paris
2017 International tour
2018 Astana
2022 Italy tour
AwardsGuinness World Records
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Notre-Dame de Paris is a sung-through French musical which debuted on 16 September 1998 in Paris. It is based upon the novel Notre-Dame de Paris (known in English as The Hunchback of Notre-Dame) by the French novelist Victor Hugo. The music was composed by Riccardo Cocciante (also known as Richard Cocciante) and the lyrics are by Luc Plamondon.

Since its debut, it has been professionally played in Belgium, Canada, China, France, Italy, Japan, Lebanon, Luxembourg, Poland, Russia, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Switzerland, Taiwan, Turkey, United Kingdom and United States, and has been translated into eight languages (English, Spanish, Italian, Russian, Korean, Flemish, Polish, and Kazakh). A shorter version in English was performed in 2000 in Las Vegas, Nevada (United States) and a full-length London production, also in English, ran for seventeen months. Several songs from the show, such as "Vivre", "Belle" and "Le temps des cathédrales", have been released as singles with a huge success in French speaking countries.

Notre-Dame de Paris, according to the Guinness Book of Records, had the most successful first year of any musical ever. The score has been recorded at least seven times to date (2007): the original French concept album, which featured Israeli singer Achinoam Nini (aka Noa) as Esmeralda was followed by a live, complete recording of the original Paris cast. A complete recording of the score in Italian was made, along with a single disc of highlights in Spanish from the Barcelona production. The original London cast album featured several of the original Paris stars, but only preserved a fraction of the score in English.


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