Esmeralda (opera) Esmeralda (opera) Esmeralda is an opera in four acts composed by Arthur Goring Thomas to an English-language libretto by Theo Marzials and Alberto Randegger based on Victor Hugo's novel "The Hunchback of Notre-Dame". It premiered in London on 26 March 1883 at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane with Georgina Burns in the title role and Barton McGuckin as her lover, Phoebus. "Esmeralda" was Thomas's first opera to receive a full staging. It was commissioned by the Carl Rosa Opera Company following a very successful performance of excerpts from his opera "The Light of the Harem" in 1879 at the Royal
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996 film) musical "The Who's Tommy", Broadway actor Paul Kandel was selected to voice Clopin. Alongside "Pocahontas" (1995), storyboard work on "The Hunchback of the Notre Dame" was among the first to be produced for an animated film on the new Disney Feature Animation building adjacent to the main Disney lot in Burbank, which was dedicated in 1995. However, as the Feature Animation building was occupied with "The Lion King" and "Pocahontas" at the time, more animators were hired from Canada and United Kingdom to join the production team for "Hunchback", and as the development phase furthered along, most of the entire