Name: Candide
Start: 2018-11-30T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2018-12-02T00:00:00.000Z
Location: National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts

Organization

Tenor

Paul Groves

Candide

Soprano

Elena Sancho-Péreg

Cunegonde

Baritone

Yi-Sheng Hsu

Narrator

Dr Pangloss

Martin

Contralto

Pei-Chi Chen

Old Woman

Rios Li

Maximilian

Captain

Chien-Chi Lin

Governor

Vanderdendur

Singer

Ragotski

Lai Chueh-yu

Paquette

Chang Yin-chi

Cosmetic Merchant

First inquisitor

Charles Edward

Po-Chun Liao

Doctor

Second inquisitor

Bass

Croupier

Spoken

King Stanislas

Ming-Mou Hsieh

Bearkeeper

Third inquisitor

Tsar Ivan

Kingston Thien-Phin Kung

Sultan Achmet

Alchemist

Shau-Cheng Wu

Junkman

Hermann Augustus

En-Yu Lai

Señor I

Yu-Hsuan Huang

Señor II

Orchestra

National Symphony Orchestra Taiwan

Others

Taipei Philharmonic Chorus

National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts (Weiwuying)

Chinese

English

Kaohsiung City

Taiwan

National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts

Candide Bernstein

Public

Approved

Leonard Bernstein’s iconic operetta takes the audience on a farcical and sobering journey

In the year of Bernstein’s centennial, Weiwuying honors the maestro with a grand production of his popular operetta. Based on the French philosopher Voltaire’s satirical novella, Candide traces the tumultuous life of the title character. After a forbidden love affair leads to his exile, he embarks on a series of misadventure, encountering violence, evil, and much heartbreak.  Originally, the operetta was met with unenthusiastic reaction from the audience but is now one of Bernstein’s most popular works. In today’s tumultuous world, Candide poses urgent questions about human nature and the possibility of hope.

 

 

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. Orchestrations by Leonard Bernstein and Hershy Kay; Musical continuity and additional orchestrations by John Mauceri, with a narration for concert version by Leonard Bernstein and John Wells, adapted from the satire by Voltaire and the book by Hugh Wheeler; edited and supplemented by Erik Haagensen.

Candide by Bernstein, From (2018/2018), National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts, Kaohsiung City, Taiwan

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