Candide
Music by Leonard Bernstein
Lyrics by Richard Wilbur
Book by Hugh Wheeler
Fully Staged, Sung in English
(Opera Boston)

November 28-30
Friday and Saturday at 7:30pm, Sunday at 2pm. 
$85, $58, $40, $24.

Celebrate the holidays with one of the greatest operettas of our time.  Bernstein’s delectable score and witty tunes (including the famous “Glitter and Be Gay”) soar in this sparkling musical classic. 

Voltaire’s Candide recounts a young man’s journey from innocent youth to ripened wisdom, as he confronts arduous travel, grave misfortune, corrupt mankind and merciless Nature on his search for life’s meaning.  Despite the volatility of bliss and misery, optimism and pessimism, the hopeful Candide, along with his childhood love Cunegonde, commit themselves to the pursuit of “Universal Good.”  Although the story deals with serious, even tragic matters, it does so with an extreme lightness of touch and often refreshing comic results.