Lamplighters glitter in Bernstein’s Candide

By Jaime Robles, 05 February 2015

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Reviewed at Yerba Buena Centre for the Arts, San Francisco on 31 January 2015

Bernstein, Candide

Lamplighters Music Theater

Baker Peeples, Conductor, Narrator

Phil Lowery, Director

Amy Foote, Cunegonde

Michelle Shroeder, Paquette

Deborah Rosengaus, Old Lady

Samuel Faustine, Candide

Adam Flowers, Governor

Rick Williams, Doctor Pangloss

Sam Rabinowitz, Maximilian

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***11

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****1

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****1

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****1

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Jaime Robles

Jaime Robles has previously written in the San Francisco Bay Area, including for the San Francisco Classical Voice. Also a poet, she has written song lyrics and librettos for several one-act operas, including Inferno (music by Peter Josheff), staged in 2009 by San Francisco Cabaret Opera, and Vladimir in Butterfly Country (music by Anne Callaway), staged in 2012.