Organization

Admin

Conductor

Constantine Kitsopoulos

Stage director

Stage director (+3)

Michael Shell

Set designer

Set designer (+1)

Steven Kemp

Costume designer

Linda Pisano

Chorusmaster

Chorusmaster (+1)

Walter Huff

Lighting designer

Bridget S Williams

Choreographer

Lauren Haughton Gillis

Dramaturge

Chris Mills

Tenor (+2)

Matthew Perez

Cacambo

Tenor

Cameron king

Candide

Soprano

Sashekia Brown

Cunegonde

Siyi Yan

Countertenor (+2)

Alexander Kapp

Dr Pangloss

Martin

Baritone

Steven M. Warnock

Bass-baritone (+2)

Kyle Forehand

Maximilian

Mezzo-soprano (+1)

Alice Lind

Old Woman

Soprano (+2)

Maisah Outlaw

Caroline Goodwin

Paquette

Soprano (+1)

Elleka Okerstrom-Drew

Zhihui Pang

Governor of Buenos Aires

Jack Nadler

Captain

Baritone (+1)

Gabriel Armstrong

Ansley Valentine

Makeup artist

Makeup artist (+3)

Andrew Elliot

Jacobs School of Music (Indiana University)

Orchestra

Indiana University Orchestra

Musical Arts Center

What's It All About, Candide?

Who are we? What is our purpose? Why is there so much pain and suffering in the world?

Poor Candide is mindless with optimism in what he has been taught is “the best of all possible worlds.” Cue wake-up call.

As he is thrust into a kaleidoscopic global journey full of extreme misadventures, he realizes that perhaps he was misinformed.

Based on Voltaire’s masterful satire of the same name, this outlandish episodic operetta pokes fun at the idea that everything happens for a reason, and its irreverent absurdity allows us to laugh at ourselves and the hypocrisy we face daily.

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