The story is set in Paris in the year 1482. The original London cast album featured several of the original Paris stars, but only preserved a fraction of the score in English. A complete recording of the score in Italian was made, along with a single disc of highlights in Spanish from the Barcelona production. 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. Notre-Dame de Paris, according to the Guinness Book of Records, had the most successful first year of any musical ever. 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. 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. 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). The music was composed by Riccardo Cocciante (also known as Richard Cocciante) and the lyrics are by Luc Plamondon. 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. Notre-Dame de Paris is a sung-through French musical which debuted on 16 September 1998 in Paris. Victor Hugo's novel The Hunchback of Notre Dame Notre-Dame de Paris – English version (CD cover)
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