Candide ​(1956)

Class Preparation

• Handout of class slides
• Candide: Selected Lyrics
• ​The Leonard Bernstein Office Website has a wealth of information on all of Bernstein's works. For background and a synopsis of today's opera/operetta/musical, go to:
  • Candide​

YouTube Links & Playlists

Video Links:

• A complete performance of the Scottish Opera's 1988 production of Candide is available.
• The complete 1989 concert performance with Bernstein conducting the London Symphony Orchestra is available on YouTube in two videos. There are German subtitles, but the performance, of course, is in English. Act I  and Act 2

Playlists:​

• Candide (Original 1956 Broadway Cast Recording with Max Adrian, Robert Rounseville, Barbara Cook, & Irra Petina)
• Candide (1974 Broadway Cast Recording, one-act version, Book by Hugh Wheeler, Direction by Harold Prince)
• Candide (1989 Deutsche Grammophon Recording, conducted by Leonard Bernstein--"the final revised version")