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Disappointing Candide in Auckland

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“masterful music-making was let down by the incessantly farcical stage business”
Reviewed at Auckland Town Hall: Great Hall, Auckland on 23 March 2018
Bernstein, Candide
New Zealand Opera
Wyn Davies, Conductor
Stuart Maunder, Director
Roger Kirk, Set Designer, Costume Designer
James Benjamin Rodgers, Candide
Amelia Berry, Cunegonde
Jacqueline Dark, Old Lady
Kanen Breen, Governor
Reg Livermore, Doctor Pangloss
James Harrison, Maximilian
Natasha Wilson, Paquette
Auckland Philharmonia
Freemasons New Zealand Opera Chorus
Byron Coll, Vocals
Robert Tucker, Baritone
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