Published on Oct 9, 2012

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Genre: Drama

Dates: November 21-25, 2012

Venue: Poly Theatre

Prices: 280, 380, 580, 880, 1280, 1680

Features: Notre-Dame de Paris is a sung-through French-Canadian musical has been successful palyed many countries over 20 years. On November 21-25, this world classic musical drama will presents at Poly theatre in Beijing.

BRIEF INTRODUCTION

This show is perform in English, with Chinese subtitles.

Progenitor: Victor Hugo
Playwright: Luc Plamondon
Composer: Richard Cocciante
French composer: Luc Plamondon
English composer: Will Jennings
Director: Gilles Maheu

Notre-Dame de Paris is a sung-through French-Canadian musical which debuted on 16 September 1998 in Paris. It is based upon the novel Notre-Dame de Paris (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 played in Canada, France, Belgium, Russia, Switzerland, Italy, Spain, China, South Korea, Haiti and Taiwan. A shorter version in English was performed in 2000 in Las Vegas, Nevada (USA) and a full-length London production, also in English, ran for seventeen months. Popular songs from the show, such as Belle and Le temps des cathedrales have also been translated into Belarusian, Catalan, Czech, German, Lithuanian, Polish, Russian , Dutch and English.

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. The orchestral group I Fiamminghi recorded a CD of melodies from the score. A complete set of instrumental backing tracks has also been released.

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