Get a first look at Leonard Bernstein's classic comedy operetta Candide, making its long-awaited debut at The Atlanta Opera, featuring an acclaimed cast of rising stars and veterans of the ...

A brilliantly reimagined and boldly immersive promenade performance, complete with flashmob choir, plays to the strengths of Leonard Bernstein’s witty operetta At the time of year when Edinburgh is ...

Even faced with a 35 per cent funding cut, WNO give Bernstein's tricky take on Voltaire a valiant, handsome staging Telegraph Opera Critic, Nicholas Kenyon, is an author and academic, and former ...

Leonard Bernstein's classic comedy operetta Candide makes its long-awaited debut at The Atlanta Opera, featuring an acclaimed cast of rising stars and veterans of the Metropolitan Opera in an all-new ...

The South Florida Symphony Orchestra premieres “Candide” as part of its “Icons & Rebels Masterworks” season with performances in Miami Beach, Fort Lauderdale and Key West. (Photo courtesy of South ...

A FEW months ago, a colleague phoned to report a sighting in Los Angeles of John Mauceri, a former music director of Scottish Opera. Some time later, in a wholly unrelated conversation, a group of ...

“Opera Company of Middlebury has entered the film business —and with a glorious video production putting its own stamp on Leonard Bernstein’s enigmatic masterpiece ‘Candide.’” So began my May 15 ...

Leonard Bernstein originally wrote his opera version of Voltaire’s Candide in the 1950’s using a libretto by Lillian Hellman that used the tale as an attack on McCarthyism and the House Un-American ...

The scathing Candide, published in 1759 by the French Enlightenment writer Voltaire, lampooned the philosophy that “all is for the best in this best of all possible worlds.” Nearly 200 years later, in ...

Zee Gaines reviews the ENO's first staging of Leonard Bernstein's 1956 satirical operetta, Candide First performed to a McCarthyism-era American audience, this is the ENO's first staging of Leonard ...

Bernstein’s piece is played in promenade, with the cast and a large community chorus performing in close proximity to the audience. From the outset – when the Westphalian castle in which we meet the ...

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