her victimization and eventual death. Set in two acts, the plot can be summarized as two distinct love-triangles — one per act. As the opera begins, Esmeralda is already married (unhappily) to the crotchety, much older Gringoire (tenor). A local officer named Phoebus (awkwardly, also a tenor) has been wat

with Leopold Wilk, and fashioned after Victor Hugo's popular Notre Dame de Paris. While the famed 'Hunchback' makes an appearance or two, the gypsy Esmeralda provides the central pivot point for an odd succession of events that focuses — from the masculine perspective — on her victimization and eventual d

ching the beautiful Esmeralda from afar and fallen in love with her. Not surprisingly, Gringoire becomes suspicious, plots in vain to keep a hold on Esmeralda, and finally kills Phoebus before leaping to his own death. In the second act, the love triangle is rather more oblique, and involves the seemingly

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