Notre-Dame de Paris (musical)

Notre-Dame de Paris
Notre-Dame de Paris - English version (CD cover)
Music	Riccardo Cocciante
Lyrics	Luc Plamondon (French lyrics) Will Jennings (English lyrics)
Book	Luc Plamondon
Basis	Victor Hugo's novel The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Productions	1998 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 France Tour
Awards	Guinness World Records

Notre-Dame de Paris is a sung-through French and Québécois 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 professionally played in Belgium, Canada, China, France, Italy, Japan, Lebanon, Luxembourg, Russia, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Switzerland, Taiwan, Turkey, United Kingdom and United States, and has been translated into seven languages (English, Spanish, Italian, Russian, Korean, Flemish and Polish). 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.