Musical theatre responsible for "Les Misérables", which became the longest-running international musical hit in history. The team, in collaboration with Richard Maltby Jr., continued to produce hits, including "Miss Saigon", inspired by the Puccini opera "Madama Butterfly". The British composer Andrew Lloyd Webber saw similar success with "Evita", based on the life of Argentina's Eva Perón; "Cats", derived from the poems of T. S. Eliot (both of which musicals originally starred Elaine Paige); "Starlight Express", performed on roller skates; "The Phantom of the Opera", derived from the Gaston Leroux novel, "Le Fantôme de l'Opéra"; and "Sunset Boulevard" (from the classic film of
Jean-Paul Fouchécourt Grand Théâtre de Genève, Lausanne Opera and Zurich Opera, Netherlands Opera, Theater an der Wien, New Israeli Opera and Australian Opera. His operatic productions have included "L'enfant et les sortilèges" and "L'heure Espagnole" (Torquemada) by Ravel, "Le Nozze di Figaro" (Basilio) by Mozart, "Orphée aux Enfers" by Offenbach, "Falstaff" (Bardolfo) by Verdi, "Manon" (Guillot de Morfontaine) by Massenet, "Madame Butterfly" (Goro) by Puccini, "Eugene Onegin" (Monsieur Triquet) by Tchaikovsky, "L'étoile" (Ouf 1er) by Chabrier, "Calisto" by Cavalli, and "The Golden Cockerel" (The astrologer) by Rimsky-Korsakov. His orchestral engagements have include invitations from Saito Kinen Orchestra, Boston Symphony, National Orchestra of