Notre Dame de Paris musical staged in Baku

Azeri Minister for Culture and Tourism Abulfaz Garayev and the Ambassador of Lithuania to Azerbaijan Kestutis Kudzmanas spoke prior to the beginning of a performance. They said that the musical is a product of joint Azeri-Lithuanian “Culture capitals dialogue” project, which contribute to the development of cultural links between two countries.

Notre Dame de Paris is a sung-through French-Canadian musical which debuted on 16 September 1998 in Paris. 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, Switzerland, Italy, Spain, China, 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 cathédrales 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.

 
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