Organization

Conductor

Marin Alsop

Stage director

Lydia Steier

Set designer

Momme Hinrichs

Video designer

Costume designer

Ursula Kudrna

Lighting designer

Elana Siberski

Dramaturge

Kai Weßler

Singer

Tenor

Matthew Newlin

Candide

Soprano

Nikola Hillebrand

Cunegonde

Baritone

James Newby

Maximilian

Ben McAteer

Dr Pangloss

Contralto

Helene Schneiderman

Old Woman

Mark Milhofer

Governor

Vanderdendur

Vincent Glander

Narrator

MusikTheater an der Wien

Others

Arnold Schoenberg Chor

Orchestra

ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra

Captain

Tatiana Kuryatnikova

Paquette

Choreographer

Tabatha McFadyen

Martin

Bass

Tsar Ivan

Spoken

Grand Inquisitor

Ragotski

Paul Knights

Second inquisitor

Señor I

Charles Edward

Don Isaachar

Baron

Crook

Arvid Assarsson

Third inquisitor

Señor II

Hermann Augustus

Benjamin Savoie

Sultan Achmet

Benjamin Heil

King Stanislas

Archbishop

Pablo Delgado

Baroness

Alessio Borsari

Bearkeeper

Takanobu Kawazoe

Cosmetic Merchant

Tomasz Kufta

Doctor

Zacharias Galaviz

Junkman

Carl Kachouh

Alchemist

Chorus master

Erwin Ortner

Ingliż

Vienna

Austria

Halle E im MuseumsQuartier

Candide Bernstein

Public

Ġermaniż

Approved

CANDIDE: Leonard Bernstein

COMIC OPERETTA IN TWO ACTS
Scottish Opera Version

Music by Leonard Bernstein
Book by Hugh Wheeler after Voltaire
Lyrics by Richard Wilbur

with additional lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, John La Touche, Lillian Hellman, Dorothy Parker and Leonard Bernstein 
Orchestrations by Leonard Bernstein and Hershy Kay
Bridges and additional orchestration by John Mauceri

Why is the world in crisis when everyone seemingly only wants the best? We are living in the best of all possible worlds. This is what the young Candide is taught by his teacher Pangloss. And even though Candide experiences war, plagues and natural disasters, even though his home is destroyed, his beloved Cunegonde is raped and he himself escapes death by the skin of his teeth on several occasions, he remains an incorrigible optimist as he travels boldly through the Old World and the New World. When Voltaire wrote his novel Candide in 1759, the Lisbon earthquake had just shaken humanity’s faith in the divine order to the core, and when Leonard Bernstein composed a very American operetta based on the novel in 1956 the world was in the grip of the Cold War. Today, the world is going through one crisis after another, and the satirical operetta Candide describes the absurdity of this world better than it ever did. Leonard Bernstein’s score, which he revised several times, is a tribute to the history of music in Europe, full of witty parodies and brilliant orchestrations. Marin Alsop, principal conductor of the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra and herself a pupil of Bernstein’s, will conduct Candide; the American director Lydia Steier makes her debut in Vienna.

In English with German and English surtitles
Introduction to the work 30 minutes before curtain-up

 
Besetzung

Musikalische Leitung
Marin Alsop

Inszenierung
Lydia Steier

Bühne und Video
Momme Hinrichs

Kostüm
Ursula Kudrna

Licht
Elana Siberski

Choreografie
Tabatha McFadyen

Dramaturgie
Kai Weßler

Erzähler
Vincent Glander

Candide
Matthew Newlin

Cunegonde
Nikola Hillebrand

Maximilian / Tsar Ivan
James Newby

Dr. Pangloss / Martin
Ben McAteer

Old Lady
Helene Schneiderman

Grand Inquisitor / Captain / Governor / Vanderdendur / Ragotski
Mark Milhofer

Paquette
Tatiana Kuryatnikova

Baron / Don Issachar / Inquisitor II / Señor I / Charles Edward / Crook
Paul Knights

Señor II / Inquisitor III / Hermann Augustus
Arvid Assarsson

Sultan Achmet
Benjamin Savoie

Archbishop / Stanislaus
Benjamin Heil

Baronesse
Pablo Delgado

Bear-Keeper
Alessio Borsari*

Cosmetic Merchant
Takanobu Kawazoe*

Doctor
Tomasz Kufta*

Junkman
Zacharías Galaviz-Guerra*

Alchemist
Carl Kachouh*

Croupier
Jörg Espenkott*

Tänzer
William John Banks

Tänzer
Martin Dvořák

Tänzer
Nikos Fragkou

Tänzer
Máté Rácz

Tänzer
Thomas Riess

Tänzer
Felix Schnabel

Tänzer
Jamie Winbank

ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien
Arnold Schoenberg Chor
(Leitung: Erwin Ortner)

English

Krediti ta' prestazzjoni (Il-Kast & l-Ekwipaġġ )

Kast

Ekwipaġġ

Ensemble