Event listing: Bernstein Candide | Kimmel Center: Marian Anderson Hall | Event is in the past

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Kimmel Center: Marian Anderson Hall Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, PA 19102, United States

Dates/times in New York time zone

Programme

Bernstein, Leonard (1918-1990)

Libretto by Lillian Hellman or Richard Wilbur

Performers

Yannick Nézet-Séguin	Conductor
Kevin Newbury	Director
Andrew Boyce	Set Designer
Paul Carey	Costume Designer
The Philadelphia Orchestra
Bradley Cooper	Narrator
Carey Mulligan	Narrator
Alek Shrader	Tenor	Candide
Erin Morley	Soprano	Cunegonde
Denyce Graves	Mezzo-soprano	Old Lady
Kevin Vortmann	Tenor	Doctor Pangloss
William Burden	Tenor	Governor
Amanda Lynn Bottoms	Mezzo-soprano	Paquette

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Candide channels Ferris Bueller’s Day Off in Philadelphia

Susan Gould, 20th June

Yannick Nézet-Séguin and Kevin Newbury see Candide as a coming-of-age story, placing it in their own high-school years, specifically 1992, making Westphalia a USA knockoff.

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