Organization

Zanger

Tenor

Miles Mykkanen

Candide

Soprano

Marie Lys

Cunegonde

Contralto

Anna Steiger

The Old Lady

Baritone

Franco Pomponi

Voltaire/Dr. Pangloss

Martin

Joël Terrin

Maximilian

King Hermann Augustus

Béatrice Nani

Paquette

Nicolas Wildi

Governor

Vanderdendur

Bass

Raphael Hardmeyer

Inquisitor 3

Bastien Combe

Inquisitor 1

Ragotski

Prince Charles Edward

Spoken

Fernando Cuellar Leon

King Stanislaus

Dirigent

Gavriel Heine

Regisseur

Vincent Boussard

Set designer

Vincent Lemaire

Kostuum ontwerper

Christian Lacroix

Video ontwerper

Isabel Robson

Licht ontwerper

Nicolas Gilli

Choreograaf

Helge Letonja

Koor meester

Patrick Marie Aubert

Cacambo

Mike Winter

Narrator

Opéra de Lausanne

Others

Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne

Lausanne

Zwitserland

Candide Bernstein

Public

Approved

This “American-style operetta” questions the optimism of the Brave New World and its supposed superiority.

Based on the eponymous work by Voltaire, Candide according to Bernstein transposes the caustic Voltairean sense of humour into contemporary American society. A comedy that mocks the world’s absurdity, this ‘American operetta’ questions the optimism of Brave New World and its supposed superiority. Bernstein creates a lyric work unique in its genre. Candide is subjected to a significant number of edits by a variety of people before arriving at its final form which encompasses all its originality. Just like the fate of the work itself, the young Candide’s initiation journey is marked by several adventures and sudden changes. While he learns at his own expense that ‘everything is not for the best in the best of all possible worlds’, the music on the other hand returns to optimism in sparkling passages full of joy and parody. Nothing is left out: a brilliant overture, the pieces of bravery for the coloratura, the dances, from the tango to the gavotte; everything is there. Irony and good nature mark the path of happiness, which consists very simply of ‘cultivating our garden’.

English

Candide by Bernstein, Van (2020/2020), Geregisseerd door Vincent Boussard,, Dirigent Gavriel Heine, Opéra de Lausanne, Lausanne, Zwitserland

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