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Music by Leonard Bernstein |
Production Credits |
A Co-Production of Scottish Opera |
Cast |
Glasgow Cast
Nickolas Grace - Voltaire / Pangloss / Cacambo / Martin |
London Cast
Nickolas Grace - Voltaire / Pangloss / Cacambo / Martin |
Musical Numbers |
Selections as shown in the program of The Old Vic production
Act One
Act Two
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Selections as shown in the published score
Act One
Act Two
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Recording |
Candide - Scottish National Opera
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Television Broadcast
The Old Vic production was filmed and telecast on the BBC. |
Synopsis |
Candide is in love with Cunegonde, daughter of the house in Westphalia where he is brought up. Dr. Pangloss, their tutor, teaches them that everything in this world is for the best, part of God's universal plan. Candide is then subjected to a knockabout series of disasters to test this theory. He is expelled from Cunegonde's home, press-ganged into the army, finds Cunegonde raped and apparently dead, and meets Pangloss, disfigured by syphilis. Surviving an earthquake, they are captured by the Holy Inquisition, and Pangloss is hanged. Reunited with Cunegonde, he kills her new lovers and they flee to South America where she is sold into slavery. After many adventures among war-like Jesuits and the wise inhabitants of Eldorado, he returns to Venice where he finds Cunegonde a whore in a gambling casino. Finally disillusioned, he realizes that the world is neither good nor bad but what we make of it. |
Compiled by Michael H. Hutchins |