Candide

Release Date: 2018-06-01

Overview: When young Candide's marriage offer to a baron's daughter backfires, the naïve student of optimism is hurled into an eye-opening journey around the globe, discovering the horrors of existence at every step. Turning Voltaire’s Candide, a stinging blast against tyranny and feigned moralising, into toe-wiggling musical theatre is a crazy idea. Bernstein revised his operetta countless times before settling on the final version. The Grange Festival’s 2018 semi-staged production commemorates the composer’s 100th birthday.

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Cast

Richard Suart

as Narrator/Pangloss/Martin

Rob Houchen

as Candide

Katie Hall

as Cunegonde

Charles Rice

as Maximilian

Rosemary Ashe

as Old Woman