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I much prefer this over the snippet of "Little people" we have now

Enfin, une version rarissime où à 1'37, il y a le bridge, ce changement de mélodie, qui a été sucré dans les version ultérieures !

45:45 so pretty.... sounds so much more wistful than the rest of the musical, i kind of wish it would've persisted in the later versions

Magic. Pure magic. ❤❤xx

I really love the concept version of les mis since as much as i love the musical it feels like it's become more disneyfined over the years and i honestly hope to see a production that captures the more dark somber tone of the novel.

Do you have the Matrix file for this audio? I want to remaster this audio

Prefer a baritone to a tenor

It’s super interesting to hear the French musical theater vocal style…it’s more classically influenced than us Anglophones, but simultaneously uses less “vocal techniques” or stunts than we do. They put emotional delivery and characterization front and center and I love how conversational this sounds. Et dieu merci that they opted for head voice over high belting; I wish and hope for the day when is Americans realize how much better and less distracting it is to do that. Merci merci merci dear poster ❤️ ❤️ ❤️

It's interesting that the original Jean Valjean in the first French Release is not a tenor, unlike in the revised French and in the English production

I like this version better, but the English-version still has a place in my heart

"Noir ou blanc, hors la loi ou dedans Noir ou blanc, c’est Javert ou Valjean." I like that this line remains in the French lyrics still. It sums up Javert's philosophy so well.

okay so i love it!! also, maybe sbd here could help me - i struggle with finding french versions of popular musicals (that werent originally written in french) and it makes me sad bc i really wanted to practice the language by listening to some shows that i already know. and im able to find songs from almost any musical in my native language, even though its much less "popular" then french. i would really looooove to listen to some songs that i know (so that i would understand what they're about) while learning new vocab. do u maybe have some links? anything that was on brodway will do actually :')

I wish this had subtitles

il est sorti a l epoque en 33 tours que j ai de l époque , mais je sais qu a l époque a paris ils vendaient la vhs !! a la sortie et j aimerais bien la retrouvée

Jean Vallée is perfect as Javert, I can only half make out the lyrics (my high school French is super rusty), but his voice and performance of "Noir ou Blanc" perfectly captures Hugo's depiction of the character as a dogmatic misanthrope.

I always wondered why Claude Michel and Alain Boubli never considered doing a film version of the show when it was in Paris still. They had a film director as the director of the show. Robert Houbien (might've misspelled the name) later made a film in 1982 based on the novel.

To the will

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It's funny how the heist number is entirely instrumental until Éponine screams. Wish they kept that.

enjolras sounds clinically depressed i need to give him a hug

6:34

Cette version est la meilleure de la volonté du peuple mais je n'ai que 17 ans

How do you have this? It's remarkable. Thank you.

Something I just don't understand in this version (At least it doesn't make sense to me) it's in Gavroche's death scene. I mean, how come can Javert be still alive in that sequence? Or could it happen after Javert's Suicide and not before? I really need some context here.

Cela reste ma comédie musicale préférée, bien que jamais vue sur scène avec des professionnels. J'ai découvert le monde des comédies musicales avec mon collège St Joseph à Wattrelos, si dynamique et emmené largement par le prof de sports Claude Bouquillon, avec les projets fous d'en monter une chaque fin d'année scolaire, d'abord en play-back puis en direct : 1980 : Le Big Bazar (Michel Fugain) 1981 : Mayflower (Eric Charden) avec un bateau de 33m de large en décor ! 1982 : Hair (en anglais) 1983 : La Révolution Française Opéra-rock (Claude-Michel Schoenberg). 1er gros morceau, digne d'un show professionnel, 6 scènes différentes, ça venait de partout dans la salle, une immersion totale au sein même du spectacle, juste assis sur son siège. 9 représentations. Dingue. ... 1986 : Terrain vague (une création des profs avec interprétation de reprises diverses en direct avec chorale). Un cran au dessus. Spectacle sélectionné parmi tous les projets pédagogiques des écoles catho de France, et joué à Paris au Pavillon Balthar. ... 1989 : D'une Révolution à l'autre (nouvelle création partant de La Révolution Opéra Rock à Les Misérables pour la révolution industrielle, en passant par Napoléon Bonaparte (Serge Lama). Une méga création de la trame, des textes intermédiaires, de la mise en scène, tout en direct, avec musiciens et chorale, 400 élèves sur scène et quelques profs autant investis, 6 scènes différentes dans la salle polyvalente Roger Salengro. 11 représentations sur 5 jours. Niveau pro avec juste des amateurs ! Que de souvenirs nostalgiques, que d'articles dans les journaux, La Voix Du Nord et Nord Éclair, La Croix notamment. Les Misérables était en projet. Mon frère Damien était à la technique du groupe Évasion (créé par des anciens élèves au soutien de tous les spectacles de l'école, dont kermesse). Il bénéficiait des enregistrements sur cassettes en avant première en début d'année. Je me délectais à les écouter, les apprenais sans difficulté par coeur). Je rêvais d'être moi aussi sur scène un jour, mais n'osais pas, trop timide pour me lancer comme mes camarades de classe. Alors j'en prenais pleins les yeux en juin, en visualisant le rendu sur scène de ce que j'entendais. J'écoute encore aujourd'hui ces comédies musicales sur mon lecteur de K7 audio ! Je rêvais d'aller voir un jour une comédie musicale à Paris, ou même à Brodway (Les Misérables, Cats, le Fantôme de l'Opéra...) mais mon ex-mari désintéressé n'a jamais validé, ni cherché à me faire un peu plaisir. Aujourd'hui, je suis libérée enfin de son emprise mais ai tout perdu à tous points, ne sais même plus entreprendre quelque projet, juste pour moi enfin, trop cassée et détruite. Merci, Merci, pour ce post qui me donne des frissons. J'avais la version audio classique de 1980 reprise sur CD, mais n'avais jamais entendu certaines parties. Et toutes ces paroles et ambiance, qui remontent à l'époque de Victor Hugo, tellement bien retranscrite en 1980 et 1982 par Claude Michel Schoenberg et Alain boublil, et qui raisonnent tant pour moi aujourd'hui en 2022. Notamment : "J'avais rêvé d'une autre vie, mais la vie a tué mes rêves, à peine commencée elle finit...". Avec Starmania, toutes les paroles retracent ma vie déchue par les autres, les mauvaises rencontres bien déguisées en personnes trop bien pour être honnêtes, jouant de ma bienveillance et crédulité. Thank you, Thank you so much for this soundtrack. Despite the lack of video, the few photos all along the musicals allow our minds to imagine what could have been this show in 1980. So lucky you are those who saw this show in 1980, when I was 10. Technicity helps also to go back to our souvenirs or to feel what we missed in time. Merci à RUclips et à sa communauté ! C'est bien aussi pour ça la technique !

"Noir ou Blanc" certainly improved by the time they recorded the album.

The music in the beginning is so cool!!!

I don't know why, but I love the way he says "bien garde" 0:16

C'est incroyable de découvrir ce trésor ici. Mille mercis, c'est magnifique.

Qué maravilla este audio. Me transporta a mi infancia en los '80 en Chile y me invade el recuerdo de mi papá 😢, quién era un amante del idioma francés. Junto a mis hermanos escuchábamos "Los Miserables" en disco vinilo y mi padre nos traducía. Merci beaucoup Papá...Je t'aime!!

1:40:00 A Little Fall of Rain

Fascinating. I just love those strings 4:11-4:20 . It is so interesting listening to both the differences and the similarities from how it all began to what we now know.

What was with Valjean screaming after he dies? Did he go to Hell?

Rescue from those evil hands... And that's her adoption day, which she wouldn't forget!

Hi there, lovely to hear this, though just to correct the date , this was recorded while we were at The Shaftesbury Theatre in 1993.

dommage de ne pas l'avoir en vidéo, j'ai assisté au spectacle en direct à l’époque c'était génial

I love the song melody eponine sings instead of on my own, it’s so beautiful

Je me rappele en 1999 dans Hotel Club les Colombes a Hammamet en Tunisie d'avoir participer dans une comédie musicale de les misérables j'avais 14 a l'époque , le réalisateur il s'appellait Marc , c'était une superbe d'expérience !!!!! 😍😍😍

Translation: Javert: Valjean, at last, Your sentence you will serve, Monsieur le maire, You'll wear the chain you deserve. Valjean: Before you say another word, Javert, Before you chain me up like a slave again, Listen to me! There's a favor I must do. This woman dies, leaving behind a suffering child, I have sworn to help her, In heaven's name, three days are all I need. Then I'll return, you have my word, Then I'll return. Javert: Your words of a convict! I've hunted you across the years, Men like you cannot change. You can never change! Valjean: Believe of me what you will, There is a promise I must keep, You know nothing of my life, All I did was steal some bread, You know nothing of the world, It is not all black and white, Nothing will stop me from doing my duty, I am warning you, Javert, I am stronger than you by far, I know what I must do, If you will stand in my way, I am warning you, Javert, If I have to kill you here, I will do what must be done, To see my duty through. Javert: Men like me can never change, Anymore than men like you, No, 24601. I am who serves the law, You have no rights, You're under arrest 24601! Now your luck has turned around, Jean Valjean is lost and found, Dare you talk to me of crime, And the price you had to pay, Every man must choose his way, Every man is born in sin, You know nothing of Javert, I was born inside a cell, I was raised with scum like you, I was surrounded by outlaws too! Valjean: And this I swear by all I hold dear. Javert: You will not escape me again. Valjean: Cosette will have a father soon. Javert: Wherever you hide, I will be too Valjean: And she will know only happiness. Both: I swear to you, I will be there.

Translation: Valjean: That man is innocent, He is not Jean Valjean! Only I can save him, And to give myself up. But I have struggled for so long, Built and made up so much, Only to give it up, For a stray remorse? If I stay silent, I am damned. But if I speak, I am condemned. I only stole a loaf of bread In a moment of famine, And paid every crime For nineteen years, Until the last crouton, I escaped without a sou, I stole two candlesticks, From a bishop, a saint, To whom I owe the sense To be on this right path. If I stay silent, I am damned! But if I speak, I am condemned! I made my fortune upon A new way to make glass, I employed hundreds of workers Who love me And made me their mayor. If I stay silent, I am damned! But if I speak, I am condemned! What to do? Should I refuse to walk back into hell, Because I made my paradise on Earth? Cross out my past forevermore, And bask in oblivion, What to do? Should I save this man damned by error, Become Valjean again for my honor? Beg my forgiveness from him And end this new life I made for me, What to do? Can I abandon those who believe in me, Or the one who is blameless? If I do not denounce him, I cannot hide that I am him If God decided this for me, Then his decree is law for me There's nothing to do. I cannot hide, I am Jean Valjean! Here is the truth at last, Javert, An innocent was tried in my stead! Who am I? 24601!

Translation: Man: Help, Monsieur le Maire! Come one, come all! Old Fauchelevent is stuck under his cart! We should get him out of there quickly! His breathing is labored! He's choking, he's choking! Come all, quickly! Valjean: Does anyone have the strength and the heart? I offer five louis for the one who helps this man Even ten, twenty, for the one who wants to try, To serve as a lever from their misfortune, I will not let this man die in front of me, If none will do it, then I will myself! People: No, Monsieur le Maire! His poor life is not worth yours, And no one will miss him On this Earth! Don't do it, Monsieur le Maire! His poor life is not worth yours, Everyone will miss you! Javert: This for example, I cannot believe. That one could raise a cart with his bare hands, You are so strong, You remind me of someone from my past, A very old memory stirs, To tell you, Monsieur le Maire, I would not dare. Valjean: It is too late For you to stop. Javert: I have only known one other, To have done what you just did, A real workhorse, And a rascal Who broke his parole. His name is Jean Valjean I hunted him with all my choler For seventeen long years, But I likely was wrong in this instance To mistake you for Valjean. But we now caught the culprit Just three days ago. Valjean: You say you caught This escaped convict, Or so it seems. And how do you know it's this Valjean Who looks like me And why are you so certain, That it is he and not I? Javert: I recognized his face, I know it's him, He wears the brand, On his perfidious skin, I will testify, At his trial, Where he will be executed!

Translation: Valjean: Just a moment, if you please. Set this woman free. Javert: But Monsieur le Maire! Valjean: I believe she did nothing wrong Take her to the hospital, not prison! Javert: But Monsieur le Maire! Fantine: Is this possible? Valjean: Go on. Fantine: My God! Valjean: Make it quick. Fantine: Ah! So it is you, Monsieur le Maire, I must have misheard. Valjean: I will send for your little girl. Fantine: He kicked me out of the factory, he had me fired. Valjean: You were relieved from the burden of your debts. Fantine: For clam's gossip, You scoundrel of a mayor! Valjean: You who have not ceased To be virtuous before God. Fantine: Are you an angel or a devil? I would rather die than cling to false hope, If you have to, let me fall further, I no longer feel anything. Misery leads to distress. Valjean: How could I have done this? Fantine: All these vices and the weakness Valjean: My God! Had I but known! Fantine: Misery unleashes the beast in man! Valjean: All the wrong I have done! Fantine: And the bird turns into a stray dog! Valjean: Let it be done as I ordered! Javert: But Monsieur le Maire! Valjean: I want to see no one else!

Translation: Javert: Tell me quickly what just happened, Who is dead and who killed him, Where I pass crime is extinguished, And Order is secure, Let everyone beware, For I always get my way, I reward those who report With civic duties. Batanbois: Inspector, it is that girl, Who hit me savagely, For only a few kind words, For a simple compliment. Javert: Take this ride out And put her in prison, Let us see if she regains her righteousness As well as her reason. Fantine: Inspector, please spare me, I regret all what I did. My little girl is sick, Please let me remain free. All: Take this ride out And put her in prison, Let us see if she regains her righteousness As well as her reason. Fantine: Inspector, I am sick, Sometimes I cough up blood. Javert: If you think I will believe, All these poor arguments When we want to be honest There is always a way We work with our heads Where we work with our hands It's less certain, but much harder To get you on the right path.

Enjolras: A la volonte du peuple, Et a la sante du progres, Remplis ton coeur d'un vin rebelle Et a demain, l'ami fidele! Si ton coeur bat aussi fort, Que le tambour dans le lointain, C'est que l'espoir existe encore Pour le genre humain. Combeferre: Nous ferons un barricade, Le symbol d'un ere qui commence, Nous partons en croisade Au coeur de la terre sainte de France, Courfeyrac: Nous sommes désormais Les guerriers d'une armée qui s'avance. Tous: A la volonte du peuple, Et a la sante du progres, Remplis ton coeur d'un vin rebelle Et a demain, l'ami fidele! Si ton coeur bat aussi fort, Que le tambour dans le lointain, C'est que l'espoir existe encore Pour le genre humain. Feuilly: A la volonte du peuple Je fais don de ma volonte. S'il faut mourir pour elle, Moi, je veux etre le premier Le premier nom grave sur La marbre monument d'espoir. Tous: A la volonte du peuple, Et a la sante du progres, Remplis ton coeur d'un vin rebelle Et a demain, l'ami fidele! Si ton coeur bat aussi fort, Que le tambour dans le lointain, C'est que l'espoir existe encore Pour le genre humain. Reprise: A la volonte du peuple, Dont on n'étouffe jamais la voix, Et dont le chant renaît toujours Et dont le chant renaît déjà, Nous voulons que la lumiere Déchire le masque de la nuit, Pour illuminer notre terre Et changer la vie. Il viendra le jour glorieux Ou dans sa marche vers l'idéal L'homme ira faire le progrès du mal Au bien, du faux au vrai. Un rêve peut mourir Mais on n'enterre jamais l'avenir! Joignez-vous a la croisade De ceux qui croient au genre humain? Pour un seul barricade qui tombe, Cent autres se leveront demain! A la volonte du peuple, Un tambour chante dans le lointain Qui vient annoncer le grand jour Et c'est pour demain! Joignez-vous a la croisade De ceux qui croient au genre humain? Pour un seul barricade qui tombe, Cent autres se leveront demain! A la volonte du peuple, Un tambour chante dans le lointain Qui vient annoncer le grand jour Et c'est pour demain! Ah! C'est pour demain!

2:18:07 ?

Did this production not have Eponine's On My Own? Sorry, just curious.

Merci

Michael McCarthy should've done the ALW show too. He has a powerful voice

The lyrics are slightly different. And on my own is sung by fantine not eponine in the original French version.

where can I buy this?