“Music can express what we can’t say that won’t be silent forever.” Victor Hugo
How on earth do I describe the feeling when Philippe Barreau the CEO of CITYPROD reached out to me? Joy? Definitely! Exhilaration? Absolutely! We had the experience making CD Albums for some big names but this time, it is Les Miserable!
This is a dual CD album packed in clear the highest quality jewel cases with the finest printed cover and inlays, shrink wrapped. This is a replication job for Les Miserable concert tour in Shanghai in the September of 2018.
The Miserable World is Victor Hugo’s literary masterpiece written in 1862. It depicts the heartbreaking, tragic and remarkable fates of Paris in the 19th century, but full of grand stories of love and dedication, redemption and betrayal.
“The Miserable World” was also written by Alain Briller and Claude-Michel Schoenberg, and was transferred to the Stadium of Sports in Paris by Hobaich Ossein in 1981. Since that day, as a work with over 70 million audiences, performed in 44 countries and translated into 22 languages, it has become another world legend in the history of musical. For more than 30 years, the show has never left the West End stage
Today, the classic will return to the original French version of the concert form, it will be 26 musicians, 2 children’s actors, live Symphony Orchestra stage configuration, as well as tailor-made dance costumes for the play, fully showing the French flavor of the times.
Let’s explore, or re-explore, the famous story of “The Miserable World”. While enjoying Jean Valjean, Inspector Javert, Fantine, Cosette, Thenardiers, Gavroche Jr., Eponine, Marius, and other familiar friends on the stage, listen to unforgettable songs: I Dreamed, Waiting for Tomorrow, How Can I Allow Him, and so on.《 My Story, In My Life, Beggars at Banquets, Standing at an Empty Table, Under the Stars, Song of the People, Remembering Yesterday, Red is the Flame of Anger, etc.
In the world of musicals, the status of “Miserable World” has never been shaken. It carries the initial and ultimate dreams of countless musicals fans. In September 2018, 38 years after the publication of this classic masterpiece, the French version of “Miserable World” will come to China for the first time to comfort Chinese audiences with its magnificent stage language and the ever-lasting moving melody. The scene is unparalleled and touching as it was at the beginning.
Original author: Victor Hugo
Producer: Philip Baru
Writing: Alan Briller, Jean-Claude Luchetti Muru, Herbert Klitzmo
Composition: Claude-Michelle Schoenberg
Director: Magda Hadnaki
Music Director: Christian Clavero
