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“Moshe, I just bought my tickets to see Candide at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts. It’s an operetta based on Voltaire’s 1759 novel, and Leonard Bernstein composed the music.” “Good venue; ...

With Candide, he steps onto an opera stage for the first time. Then again, Candide is no standard opera. The show takes the words of Voltaire’s novella and matches it with a score from Leonard ...

Before he wrote the famous eighteenth-century novel Candide, Voltaire wrote non-fiction books about Newtonian physics, and fiction about giant aliens visiting Earth from Sirius and Saturn. Cory Gross ...

Although it was hardly the best of all possible “Candide” productions, last weekend’s Peabody Opera Theatre mounting of Leonard Bernstein’s 1956 opera registered in the two areas that count most: His ...

The Juneau Symphony and Juneau Lyric Opera are teaming up for a concert version of “Candide,” the first time in many years the two organizations have collaborated. “It’s been awhile,” said Christopher ...

Mark Ravenhill’s Candide isn’t an adaptation of Voltaire’s slim but potent 18th-century novel. Instead it is described as “inspired by Voltaire”, and the result is a brave, strange and frustrating ...

Skylight Music Theatre has announced the cast and creative team for the long-awaited production of Leonard Bernstein’s masterpiece, Candide. Delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Candide will now open ...