Clopin Trouillefou also appeared in the straight-to-video sequel, "The Hunchback of Notre Dame II", as the host for the Festival of Love (Le Jour D'Amour, "the day of love"), although he is no longer the narrator and plays a much smaller role. Clopin Trouillefou Clopin Trouillefou (, literally "Lame Terror-Mad") is a fictional character first created in the 1831 novel "The Hunchback of Notre-Dame" by French author Victor Hugo, and subsequently adapted. In the story, Clopin disrupts Pierre Gringoire's play, begging the audience for money. Later that night, Gringoire runs into him once again in the Court of Miracles, where Clopin is
Arthur Goring Thomas 1879, with such success that Carl Rosa commissioned him to write "Esmeralda" (libretto by Theophile Marzials and Alberto Randegger), dedicated to Pauline Viardot, produced at Drury Lane on 26 March 1883. (Creator cast: Georgina Burns (Esmeralda): Barton McGuckin (Phoebus): William Ludwig (Frollo): Leslie Crotty (Quasimodo): Clara Perry (Fleur-de-Lys): Leah Don (Lois): J.H. Stilliard (Chevreuse): Ben Davies (Gringoire): G.H. Snazelle (Clopin).) This contained the very successful aria "O, vision entrancing". Two years later the opera was given (in German) at Cologne and Hamburg, and in 1890 (in French) at Covent Garden. On 16 April 1885, at Drury Lane, Rosa produced Thomas's