Candide / music by Leonard Bernstein ; adapted from Voltaire and the book by Hugh Wheeler ; staged and directed for video by Humphrey Burton ; a Video Music Production in association with Deutsche Grammophon.
Publisher:
Deutsche Grammophon,
Copyright Date:
2006
Description:
1 videodisc (2 hr., 27 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Lyrics by Leonard Bernstein, Lillian Hellman, John La Touche, Dorothy Parker, Stephen Sondheim, Richard Wilbur ; narrative written by Leonard Bernstein and John Wells. Orchestrations by Leonard Bernstein and Hershy Kay ; additional orchestrations by John Mauceri. "Final revised version, 1989"--Container. Jerry Hadley (Candide) ; June Anderson (Cunegonde) ; Adoph Green (Dr. Pangloss, Martin) ; Christa Ludwig (Old lady) ; Nicolai Gedda (Governor, Vanderdendur, Ragotski) ; Della Jones (Paquette) ; Kurt Ollmann (Maximilian, Captain) ; Clive Bayley (Bear-Keeper, Inquisitor, Tsar Ivan) ; Neil Jenkins (Cosmetic Merchant, Inquisitor, Prince Charles Edward) ; Lindsay Benson (Doctor, Inquisitor, King Stanislaus) ; Richard Suart (Junkman, Inquisitor, King Hermann Augustus) ; John Treleaven (Alchemist, Inquisitor, Sultan Achmet, Crook) ; supporting soloists ; London Symphony Chorus and Orchestra ; Leonard Bernstein, conductor. Videotaped at the Barbican Centre, London, 13 December 1989. Concert performance. Originally produced in 1991. Booklet with program notes by John Wells and plot synopsis in English (12 pages : portraits) inserted in container.
Summary:
Leonard Bernstein's operetta, based on the classic Voltaire story. Voltaire's Candide begins in Westphalia, Germany, where Candide is tortured by noted philosopher Doctor Pangloss on the idea that "all is for the best...in this best of all worlds." Candide first accepts this philosophy, but as he experiences war, poverty, the maliciousness of man, and the hypocricy of the church, he begins to doubt Pangloss.
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