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 ...

In Voltaire’s “Candide,” the main character Candide travels through the world in the pursuit of reuniting with his one true love, the beautiful Cunégonde. Throughout his journey, Candide visits Lisbon ...

Atelier de Nicolas de Largilliere, portrait of Voltaire at 24. Wikimedia Commons “Italy had its renaissance, Germany its reformation, France had Voltaire”, the historian Will Durant once commented.

They said this day would never happen. Leonard Bernstein’s musical adaptation of Voltaire’s picaresque satire flopped on Broadway in 1956. It was re-worked and rediscovered in Los Angeles 10 years ...

The fever dream that is Leonard Bernstein’s Candide is born again with the reconstituted New York City Opera, along with the happy delirium that is the hallmark of Harold Prince’s revival of this ...

Candide ends with Voltaire's famous imperative: "Il faut cultiver notre jardin." Getting Bernstein's 1956 musical adaptation of the 18th-century novel on stage must be more labour-intensive than the ...

This story was originally published by ArtsATL. In a season that has varied widely in its conceptual continuity, The Atlanta Opera’s “Candide” (through March 12 at the Cobb Energy Centre for the ...

LILLIAN Hellman, who wrote the original book for Leonard Bernstein’s 1956 operetta, called it her most unpleasant experience in the theatre. That may too harsh a verdict on this ponderous revival, ...

Since its 1956 debut as a Broadway musical, Leonard Bernstein’s “Candide” has traveled to more places – and proven even more adaptable, as it’s gone through seemingly countless versions – than its ...