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The soundtrack topped the Billboard 200 in its third week on the chart, selling 92,000 copies. [10] The total of 178,000 copies sold from the ten days of sales made it the tenth best-selling soundtrack album of 2012. [11] It sold a further 512,000 copies in the United States in 2013, making it the third best-selling soundtrack of 2013. [12]
Les Misérables is a sung-through musical based on the 1862 novel Les Misérables by French poet and novelist Victor Hugo. It premiered in Paris in 1980 and includes music by Claude-Michel Schönberg with original French lyrics by Alain Boublil and Jean-Marc Natel, as well as an English-language libretto by Herbert Kretzmer.
Les Misérables (/ l eɪ ˌ m ɪ z ə ˈ r ɑː b (əl),-b l ə / lay MIZ-ə-RAHB(-əl), - RAH-blə, French: [le mizeʁabl]), colloquially known as Les Mis or Les Miz (/ l eɪ ˈ m ɪ z / lay MIZ), is a sung-through musical with music by Claude-Michel Schönberg, lyrics by Alain Boublil and Jean-Marc Natel, and a book by Schönberg and Boublil, based on the 1862 novel of the same name by ...
The song is performed by Jean Valjean, played by Hugh Jackman in the film version. Music is by Claude-Michel Schonberg, while the lyrics are by Herbert Kretzmer and Alain Boublil. [6] A reprise of the song is performed by Marius and Cosette toward the end of the film. The song has been described as "lullaby-like". [7]
Basil Konstantine Poledouris (/ ˌ p ɒ l ɪ ˈ d ɔːr ɪ s /; August 21, 1945 – November 8, 2006) was an American composer, conductor, and orchestrator of film and television scores, [1] best known for his long-running collaborations with directors John Milius and Paul Verhoeven.
As with the rest of the film, the vocals for the song were recorded by Hathaway, live on the set, and later edited together with the music. Her performance of the song was released as part of the Les Misérables: Highlights from the Motion Picture Soundtrack on 21 December 2012 and was confirmed to be featured in the deluxe edition of the album ...
Heather Locklear still has a lot of love for her ex David Spade.. On Friday, Dec. 6, the actress, 63, made a rare appearance at Steel City Con in Monroeville, Pa., where she participated in a Q&A ...
That year he also wrote a French version of the ABBA song "Waterloo", which was recorded by the group. [1] Schönberg then made an album in which he sang his own compositions. In 1978 he dedicated his attention to musicals when he and Alain Boublil conceived the idea for a stage musical version of Victor Hugo's Les Misérables. The original ...