Claude-Michel Schoenberg

Claude-Michel Schonberg (* 6 July 1944 in Vannes , Brittany ) is a French musical - composer .

Life

Claude-Michel Schönberg began his career as a singer, lyricist and producer of chansons . In his first musical La Révolution Française (English: The French Revolution), which he wrote together with Alain Boublil , Raymond Jeannot and Jean-Max Rivière, he himself played Louis XVI.

In 1978 he and Alain Boublil began working on the musical Les Misérables , which premiered in Paris in 1980 . After the producer Cameron Mackintosh became aware of Les Misérables , the piece was greatly expanded for an international audience and premiered in a new form in 1985 in London .

Schönberg and Boublil continued their success in 1989 with the musical Miss Saigon . In 1991 the two began working on the musical Martin Guerre , the premiere of which was delayed until 1996. The latest musical by the Boublil / Schönberg writing team is titled The Pirate Queen and premiered on October 3, 2006 in Chicago.

Schönberg produced records for Julia Migenes-Johnson and the Monte Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra. In 2002 he composed his first ballet with Wuthering Heights (based on the novel "Sturmhöhe" by the English writer Emily Brontë ).

Private life

Schönberg was married to the French television presenter Béatrice Schönberg in his first marriage. On November 21, 2003, he married the 29 years younger English ballerina Charlotte Talbot, whom he met while working on Wuthering Heights . He is the father of two daughters and a son and lives in Paris.

Musicals

• La Révolution Française (Paris 1973)
• Les Misérables (Paris 1980, London 1985, Tony Award / Best Musical 1987)
• Miss Saigon (London 1989)
• Martin Guerre (London 1996)
• The Pirate Queen (Chicago 2006, New York 2007)
• Marguerite (London 2008, book only)

ballet

• Wuthering Heights (2003)
• Cleopatra (2011)

Web link

• Information about Schönberg