Name: Candide
Start: 2018-11-20T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2018-11-24T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Teatro Coliseo

Admin

Organization

Conductor

Pablo Druker

Stage director

Rubén Szuchmacher

Set designer

Jorge Ferrari

Lighting designer

Gonzalo Córdova

Chorus master

Hernán Sánchez Arteaga

Singer

Baritone

Mariano Gladić

Maximilian

Costume designer

Tenor

Santiago Martinez

Candide

Soprano

Oriana Favaro

Cunegonde

Hector Guedes

Martin

Contralto

Eugenia Fuente

Old Woman

Rocío Arbizu

Paquette

Hermann Augustus

Teatro Argentino

Others

Choir of the Argentine Theater of La Plata

Orchestra

Stable Orchestra of the Argentine Theater of La Plata

Buenos Aires

Argentina

Teatro Coliseo

Candide Bernstein

Approved

The Nuova Harmonia cycle closes its 2018 season with the Argentine premiere of the opera Candide. The production of this famous work is entirely carried out by the Argentine Theater of La Plata, dependent on the Ministry of Cultural Management of the Province of Buenos Aires.

The show takes place in the year that marks a century since the birth of the creator of West Side History, Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990). Candide was written in 1956. The libretto with which she is represented today is by Hugh Wheeler, and is inspired by the famous philosophical tale of Voltaire Cándido, or optimism (1759).

In this satire, the French Illuminist refutes the belief that we live "in the best of all possible worlds", highlights the earthly horrors, is skeptical that the universe in general can change, but tempers his pessimism by stating that Everyone can do something to change their circumstances and make their life more prosperous ("we must cultivate our garden"). The score, without pretending to resemble those of the 18th century, nevertheless maintains a certain period tone through an imaginative combination of styles and past forms.

English

Candide by Bernstein, From (2018/2018), Directed by Rubén Szuchmacher,, Conductor Pablo Druker, Teatro Coliseo, Buenos Aires, Argentina

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