2 minute read

CANDIDE (1956)

Music by LEONARD BERNSTEIN Book by HUGH WHEELER, after VOLTAIRE

Lyrics by RICHARD WILBUR, STEPHEN SONDHEIM, JOHN LA TOUCHE, LILLIAN HELLMAN, DOROTHY PARKER, and LEONARD BERNSTEIN

PAINTING: JASON YEOMANS

Presented in English with English projected lyrics.

Twelve performances: July 8, 10m, 16m, 25m, 27, 29m; August 5, 7m, 13m, 15m, 18, 20m, 2023

Running time: 2 hours and 50 minutes, including one 25-minute intermission

This production is generously sponsored by Andrew J. Martin-Weber.

This production is presented by arrangement with Boosey & Hawkes, Inc., Sole Agent for Leonard Bernstein Music Publishing Company LLC, publisher and copyright owner.

Pangloss/Voltaire Bradley Dean+

Candide Brian Vu

Cunegonde Katrina Galka

Old Lady Meredith Arwady

Maximilian Schyler Vargas*

Martin/James Jonathan Patton*

Cacambo Jonathan Pierce Rhodes*

Grand Inquisitor/Governor Ryan Johnson*

Paquette Lisa Marie Rogali*

Baroness/Vanderdendur Keely Futterer*

Minister’s Wife/Queen of Eldorado Alicia Russell Tagert*

Baron/King of Eldorado Carlos Ahrens*

The Glimmerglass Festival Orchestra and Chorus

Conductor Joseph Colaneri

Original Director

Director and Choreographer

Francesca Zambello

Eric Sean Fogel

Set Designer James Noone

Costume Designer

Lighting Designer

Sound Designer

Hair & Makeup

Projected Titles

Jennifer Moeller

Mark McCullough

Joel T. Morain

Tom Watson

Kelley Rourke

Chorus Director Katherine Kozak

Assistant Director

Assistant Conductor

Principal Coach

Associate Choreographer

Dance Captain

Assistant Coach

English Diction Coach

Stage Manager

*Member of the Young Artists Program

Mario Pacheco*

Micah Gleason*

Grant Wenaus

Andrea Beasom

Madison Hertel*

Laura Bleakley*

Kathryn LaBouff

Iván Dario Cano

Candide, a youth of obscure origins, lives with the Baron and Baroness of Westphalia and their two children, Maximilian and Cunegonde. When Candide—inspired by the coupling of his tutor, Pangloss, and Paquette, a servant girl—proposes to marry Cunegonde, he is kicked out of the castle and recruited to the Bavarian Army. After taking part in a bloody battle between Bavaria and Westphalia, he travels to Holland, where he is reunited with Pangloss, who informs him that the Baron, Baroness, and Cunegonde have been killed. In reality, Cunegonde has survived and is being shared by two lovers: Don Issacar and the Grand Inquisitor.

Pangloss and Candide travel to Lisbon, arriving just as a terrible earthquake strikes the city. As they philosophize about the event, they are overheard and arrested for blasphemy. Pangloss is sentenced to death, Candide to flogging. An Old Woman takes Candide away and orchestrates a reunion between him and Cunegonde. When Don Issacar surprises the lovers, Candide kills him; the Grand Inquisitor soon suffers the same fate. Candide, Cunegonde, and the Old Woman flee to Spain, where they meet Cacambo, who suggests they travel together to the New World.

In Montevideo, the Governor takes an interest in Cunegonde. With Cacambo, Candide goes to Paraguay and is reunited with Maximilian, who has joined a Jesuit order. When Maximilian objects to Candide’s proposed marriage to Cunegonde, Candide kills him.

+The Actor appears through the courtesy of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.

Detailed ensemble casting is available on glimmerglass.org.

Candide and Cacambo flee and find themselves in El Dorado, where they lack for nothing—except Cunegonde. Determined to find her, they set off again. Cacambo sails for Montevideo to retrieve Cunegonde; the two friends plan to meet in Venice. Vanderdendur, a slave trader, agrees to take Candide to Venice, but robs him instead. Candide chooses a new traveling companion: Martin. On a Tunisian galley, Candide and Martin meet Pangloss and Maximilian—alive but enslaved—and buy their freedom. In Venice, they are reunited with Paquette, then Cacambo. At a masquerade ball, the Old Woman and Cunegonde approach Candide, looking for money. When Cunegonde’s mask comes off, Candide is startled by what she has become. He closes his Venetian palazzo and, taking the others with him, moves to the mountains, where all put away their old lives and find useful work.

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