Organization

Admin

Conductor

Constantine Kitsopoulos

Stage director

Michael Shell

Set designer

Steven Kemp

Costume designer

Linda Pisano

Chorus master

Walter Huff

Lighting designer

Bridget S Williams

Choreographer

Lauren Haughton Gillis

Dramaturge

Chris Mills

Singer

Spoken

Matthew Perez

Cacambo

Tenor

Cameron king

Candide

Soprano

Sashekia Brown

Cunegonde

Siyi Yan

Baritone

Alexander Kapp

Dr Pangloss

Martin

Steven M. Warnock

Kyle Forehand

Maximilian

Contralto

Alice Lind

Old Woman

Maisah Outlaw

Caroline Goodwin

Paquette

Elleka Okerstrom-Drew

Zhihui Pang

Governor

Jack Nadler

Captain

Gabriel Armstrong

Ansley Valentine

Makeup artist

Andrew Elliot

Jacobs School of Music (Indiana University)

Orchestra

Indiana University Orchestra

English

Bloomington

United States

Musical Arts Center

Candide Bernstein

Public

Approved

Candide-Paquette

What's It All About, Candide?

Who are we? What is our purpose? Why is there so much pain and suffering in the world?

Poor Candide is mindless with optimism in what he has been taught is “the best of all possible worlds.” Cue wake-up call.

As he is thrust into a kaleidoscopic global journey full of extreme misadventures, he realizes that perhaps he was misinformed.

Based on Voltaire’s masterful satire of the same name, this outlandish episodic operetta pokes fun at the idea that everything happens for a reason, and its irreverent absurdity allows us to laugh at ourselves and the hypocrisy we face daily.

Candide by Bernstein, From (2023/2023), Directed by Michael Shell,, Conductor Constantine Kitsopoulos, Musical Arts Center, Bloomington, United States

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