Notre Dame de Paris is a French-Canadian musical which debuted on 16 September 1998 in Paris. It is based upon the novel Notre Dame de Paris 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 played in Canada, France, Belgium, Switzerland, Italy, Spain, South Korea 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 and English. “Notre Dame de Paris”, according to the Guinness Book of Records, had the most successful first year of any musical ever.
Notre Dame de Paris is a French-Canadian musical which debuted on 16 September 1998 in Paris. It is based upon the novel Notre Dame de Paris 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 played in Canada, France, Belgium, Switzerland, Italy, Spain, South Korea 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 and English. “Notre Dame de Paris”, according to the Guinness Book of Records, had the most successful first year of any musical ever.