Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 09/08/2008
ARCADIA - The music of Bernstein's most popular works, "Candide" and "West Side Story," will be featured at the California Philharmonic's "Beethoven, Bernstein and Bolero," which takes place at 8 p.m. Aug. 23 at the The Arboretum, 301 N. Baldwin Ave.
Opera Today (Free subscription) | 13/07/2008
Originating at the Châtelet, where the narration was given in French, Robert Carsen's staging of Bernstein's unique satire worked rather well in its television broadcast from the Parisian house late in 2006.
The Washington Times (Free subscription) | 08/07/2008
First staged as a Broadway show in 1956, Leonard Bernstein's operetta "Candide" was critically panned and died quickly.
Washington Post (Free subscription) | 08/07/2008
Wolf Trap Opera presented its first Filene Center performance of the season on Sunday night, the concert version of Leonard Bernstein's "Candide." The company has wisely chosen to present its young artists mostly in the Barns this summer, but it joined with the National Symphony Orchestra for thi...
New Statesman (Free subscription) | 03/07/2008
Clunking anti-Americanism mars a bold updating of Bernstein's work Candide Coliseum, London WC2 If you're contemplating staging a new production of a classic opera, the period of its composition is well worth investigating. Though a piece may be set in a particular time, its real concerns are often those of the world of its creators. Der Rosenkavalier, for example, says as much and possibly more about...
DownWithTyranny! (Free subscription) | 01/07/2008
This is Kristen Chenoweth, and boy, if she had done it with a serious director who wanted to play it for real rather than for cheap comedy, could she have made something of this glorious piece! It would be a lot funnier too. What's funny about the piece is that Cunegonde wants so badly to believe that she is a sensitive, tragic sufferer, and that the vapid pleasure-loving slut is just "a role I play,"...
Reuters UK (Free subscription) | 01/07/2008
LONDON (Reuters) - A provocative production of Leonard Bernstein's musical "Candide" has come to London and sharply divided the critics.
Reuters (Free subscription) | 01/07/2008
LONDON (Reuters) - A provocative production of Leonard Bernstein's musical "Candide" has come to London and sharply divided the critics.
The First Post (Free subscription) | 30/06/2008
Alex Jennings stars as Voltaire in a controversial modern staging of Candide. Based on Leonard Bernstein's 1956 operatic adaptation of Voltaire's satirical novella, the show comes to London after proving…
Opera, Gardening, Politics, Cats... (Free subscription) | 30/06/2008
ENGLISH NATIONAL OPERA, June 28 2008 CANDIDE Music by Leonard Bernstein Lyrics by Richard Wilbur, additional lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, John Latouche, Lillian Hellman, Dorothy Parker and Leonard Bernstein. Book adapted from Voltaire by Hugh Wheeler, freely adapted by Robert Carsen and Ian Burton Orchestrations by Leonard Bernstein and Hershy Kay, with additional orchestrations by John Mauceri. (Co-production...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 27/06/2008
Half a century after being eviscerated by its producers and misunderstood by its audiences, Leonard Bernstein's Candide has Robert Carsen and Ian Burton to thank for its sharpest and most flamboyant reincarnation yet. It isn't perfect; a pithy novella still should not a long-winded musical make. But it makes Voltaire's satire at once more immediate and relevant than Lillian Hellman and Bernstein originally...
Evening Standard (Free subscription) | 26/06/2008
ENO's shiny new staging of Candide, Bernstein's 1956 operetta, has transformed this musical version of Voltaire's novella into a satire about post-war America.
The Stage (Free subscription) | 26/06/2008
Coliseum, London: After the fiasco of last year's Kismet, ENO returns to surer musical theatre ground with the Leonard Bernstein-scored Candide. Read the full review
Whatsonstage.com (Free subscription) | 26/06/2008
Leonard Bernstein's comic operetta Candide is the most mucked about with piece of theatre in the world, and there is nothing one can do except shrug one's shoulders. As Voltaire's philosopher Pangloss never tires of remarking, all is for the best i...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 25/06/2008
Three years ago, having just sung the lead in The Rake's Progress in Paris, tenor Toby Spence told the ENO he'd be interested to sing the lead in a production of Bernstein's Candide. "There was something that touched me in it, and I sensed a connection with the Rake. Both heroes are propelled through a turbulent world, and fight to maintain the hope they started their story with, and fail," he says....
