Candide - Schedule, Program & Tickets
Candide
Comic operetta in two acts
Scottish Opera version
Music by Leonard Bernstein
Book by Hugh Wheeler after Voltaire
Lyrics by Richard Wilbur
with additional lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, John La Touche, Lillian Hellman, Dorothy Parker and Leonard Bernstein
Instrumentation by Leonard Bernstein and Hershy Kay
Musical transitions and additional instrumentation by John Mauceri
Why is the world in crisis when everyone seems to want the best? We live in the best of all possible worlds, young Candide learns from his teacher Pangloss. And although Candide experiences war, epidemics and natural disasters, although Candide's homeland is destroyed, his beloved Cunegonde is raped and he himself narrowly escapes death several times, he remains an indestructible optimist on his adventurous journey through the Old and New Worlds. By the time Voltaire was writing his novel Candide in 1759, the Lisbon earthquake had just shaken faith in divine order, and by the time Leonard Bernstein composed a very American operetta on Voltaire's novel in 1956, the world was in the midst of the Cold War. Today the world is going through crisis after crisis and the satirical operetta Candide describes the madness of this world better than ever. Leonard Bernstein's score, which he himself has revised several times, is a homage to European music history, full of parodic wit and brilliantly orchestrated. Marin Alsop, chief conductor of the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra and herself a student of Bernstein, will conduct Candide; the American director Lydia Steier makes her debut in Vienna.
Co-production with the Deutsche Oper am Rhein Düsseldorf/Duisburg
In English with German and English surtitles
Introduction to the work 30 minutes before the start of the performance
Subject to change.
Scottish Opera version
Music by Leonard Bernstein
Book by Hugh Wheeler after Voltaire
Lyrics by Richard Wilbur
with additional lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, John La Touche, Lillian Hellman, Dorothy Parker and Leonard Bernstein
Instrumentation by Leonard Bernstein and Hershy Kay
Musical transitions and additional instrumentation by John Mauceri
Why is the world in crisis when everyone seems to want the best? We live in the best of all possible worlds, young Candide learns from his teacher Pangloss. And although Candide experiences war, epidemics and natural disasters, although Candide's homeland is destroyed, his beloved Cunegonde is raped and he himself narrowly escapes death several times, he remains an indestructible optimist on his adventurous journey through the Old and New Worlds. By the time Voltaire was writing his novel Candide in 1759, the Lisbon earthquake had just shaken faith in divine order, and by the time Leonard Bernstein composed a very American operetta on Voltaire's novel in 1956, the world was in the midst of the Cold War. Today the world is going through crisis after crisis and the satirical operetta Candide describes the madness of this world better than ever. Leonard Bernstein's score, which he himself has revised several times, is a homage to European music history, full of parodic wit and brilliantly orchestrated. Marin Alsop, chief conductor of the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra and herself a student of Bernstein, will conduct Candide; the American director Lydia Steier makes her debut in Vienna.
Co-production with the Deutsche Oper am Rhein Düsseldorf/Duisburg
In English with German and English surtitles
Introduction to the work 30 minutes before the start of the performance
Subject to change.
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