Notre-Dame de Paris: The Musical That's Been Waiting to Be Rediscovered
Why Plamondon and Cocciante's 1998 musical hits differently after the cathedral's 2024 reopening — and how to plan a Paris trip around it.
If you grew up in the late 1990s or early 2000s in a French-speaking household, or if you had any exposure to European pop music of that era, there’s a reasonable chance that Luc Plamondon and Richard Cocciante’s musical already lives somewhere in the back of your memory. Belle. Le Temps des Cathédrales. Vivre. Songs that, once you’ve heard them, have a habit of resurfacing unexpectedly years later.
Notre-Dame de Paris the musical debuted in Paris in 1998. It was an immediate phenomenon. In the years that followed, it was adapted into productions across the world, translated into ten languages, and saw a global cast recording that sold in extraordinary numbers. And then, like many things, it receded from the immediate cultural conversation.
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