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Les Miserables I Dreamed a Dream Claude-Michel Schönberg sheet music, Noten, spartiti, partition, 楽譜
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Les Misérables
“I Dreamed a Dream” is a song from the 1980 musical Les Misérables. It is a solo that is sung by Fantine during the first act. The music is by Claude-Michel Schönberg, with orchestrations by John Cameron. The English lyrics are by Herbert Kretzmer, based on the original French libretto by Alain Boublil and Jean-Marc Natel from the original French production.
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The song is a lament, sung by the anguished Fantine, who has just been fired from her job at the factory and thrown onto the streets. She thinks back to happier days and wonders at all that has gone wrong in her life. The song is typically played in the key of E-flat major, with the final chorus in F major. The song has also become a jazz standard.
In the 1985 musical, the song occurs after Fantine has been fired, and before “Lovely Ladies”. In the original French production and the 2012 film adaptation, these two musical numbers are swapped around, to place dramatic emphasis on Fantine’s depressing descent into prostitution.
The original French song was extensively rewritten for the English production by Herbert Kretzmer, cutting the last few lines which became the ending to “Lovely Ladies” (‘Don’t they know they’re making love to one already dead?’).
For the French revival in 1991, the song was loosely translated back from the English version; thus there are two very different French versions of the song.
Les Misérables celebrated its twentieth anniversary in London on 8 October 2005. The Broadway production closed on 18 May 2003, making it the third-longest-running Broadway musical, following Cats and The Phantom of the Opera. Schönberg oversaw the production of Les Misérables that returned to Broadway for an intended six-month engagement at the Broadhurst Theatre on 9 November 2006, although it later extended its run.
Claude-Michel Schönberg
Claude-Michel Schönberg (born 6 July 1944, in Vannes) is a French record producer, actor, singer, songwriter, and musical theatre composer, best known for his collaborations with lyricist Alain Boublil. Major works include La Révolution Française (1973), Les Misérables (1980), Miss Saigon (1989), Martin Guerre (1996), The Pirate Queen (2006), and Marguerite (2008).
Broadway productions
The Pirate Queen: music, book, 5 April 2007 – 17 June 2007 Les Misérables: music, book, 9 November 2006 – 6 January 2008 Miss Saigon: music, book, 11 April 1991 – 28 January 2001 Les Misérables: music, book, 12 March 1987 – 18 May 2003
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