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Boston Lyric Opera, with the approval of Bernstein's estate, recast Arias and Barcarolles as the further musings of Sam and Dinah. 

Fellow Travelers is shot through with darkness, making for a chilling performance by Lyric Opera of Chicago. 

The opera can be summed up by a line sung by the Countess in Act 4: “You’re killing her with all this noise.”

The world première of Breaking the Waves was a qualified success, with a powerful drama performed with commitment by strong cast and musicians.

First published in 1759, Voltaire’s Candide was re-imagined for the concert stage by Leonard Bernstein in 1956. An operetta whose aim was to mock the belief that everything—literally, everything—is for the best, Candide was an ideal medium through which to critique the excesses of McCarthyism and the complacency of the Eisenhower administration in 1950’s US politics.