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- “Prologue: Work Song”
- “Prologue: Valjean Arrested/Valjean Forgiven”
- “Prologue: What Have I Done?”
- “At The End of The Day”
- “I Dreamed A Dream”
- “Lovely Ladies”
- “Who Am I?”
- “Come to Me”
- “The Confrontation”
- “Castle on A Cloud”
Our grim introduction to the hero of Les Misérables: Jean Valjean, aka prisoner 24601, among his fellow downtrodden convicts. He’s served hard time simply for stealing a loaf of bread to save his starving family. Valjean thinks he’s finally free, but prison guard Javert will always see him as a convict. So, it transpires, will society. This effecti...
Valjean is immediately arrested for stealing silver from the Bishop’s house. But at his darkest moment comes a ray of light: the Bishop, instead of pressing charges, tells the police that he had given the silver to Valjean. This moment of salvation is a musical reprieve from the punishing misery, too.
This is the major turning point for Valjean. As the Bishop states plainly: “I have bought your soul for God.” Here the lyrics are particularly evocative as Valjean castigates himself for acting like a “thief in the night… a dog on the run”. He decides to begin again — with a new name, a new story, and a new purpose.
It’s now eight years later, and there is still misery and injustice in France – as we hear from the embittered workers. This sets up another key character in the show, Fantine, who is constantly sexually harassed by the factory foreman and mistreated by the other women. Unfortunately, Valjean (now the factory owner and mayor) misreads the situation...
After those impressively efficient opening songs establishing the musical’s setting, plot and ideas, this ballad gives us some breathing space. Fantine confesses all to us: her memories of happier times, and the dream she had for life, all destroyed by the lover who abandoned her. This stirring number transcends Les Mis, covered by everyone from Ne...
Without a social safety net, the now-unemployed Fantine slips easily into prostitution. The inevitability of that is illustrated by the song’s structure: we begin with the prostitutes and their clients, interspersed with Fantine, until she joins their ranks. Her desperation undercuts their faux-cheeriness, and we end with a violent encounter – and ...
Les Misgives Valjean several dynamic soul-searching numbers. In this one, he must decide whether to sacrifice his new life – in which he’s in a powerful position to help others – in order to save the innocent man who is about to serve his sentence. It’s a song full of questions, punctuated by the repeated couplet summing up his dilemma: “If I speak...
It’s too late for Fantine, who is now on her deathbed – but calls out to her daughter, Cosette. Years later, we’ll hear this same haunting musical refrain in Eponine’s “On My Own”, linking the two generations of women. As Fantine dies, Valjean makes another defining promise: Cosette will live in his protection. Their brief duet bonds the two, but a...
We have been building to this, and “The Confrontation” does not let us down. Valjean and Javert face off, furiously articulating their opposing points of view on justice, duty and whether a man can change his ways. Their differences are reflected in the musical counterpoint too: Valjean higher-pitched, lyrical and passionate, Javert lower, plodding...
Meet Cosette, the daughter who Fantine gave everything to protect. Here we see the sad truth that the child is neglected and ill-treated, and, in this vulnerable solo, she too “dreams a dream” of a better life with her mother. But she’s soon interrupted by the vicious Madame Thenardier, who scorns the “ten rotten francs” Fantine sent them – althoug...
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42 songs • 1 hour, 55 minutes Les Misérables: Highlights from the Motion Picture Soundtrack is the film soundtrack for the 2012 Universal Pictures film Les Misérables, performed by Hugh...
The Winner Takes It All (From "Mamma Mia!") Perfect Symphony (feat. Andrea Bocelli) Provided to YouTube by Universal Music Group I Dreamed A Dream (From "Les Misérables") · Anne Hathaway...
