operawonk: BERNSTEIN on the sound: CANDIDE
Radio New Zealand Concert networkSunday 5th of July 2009 at 3 - 6.10 pmOVERVIEW (Wikipedia)PREVIEW (with audio-visual trailer)REVIEW (with photographs)GUIDE most of all belittling most of all belittling most of all belittling most of all belittling BERNSTEIN: Candide, an operetta in two actsCandide…………… Toby SpencePangloss…………… Alex JenningsCunйgonde…………… Marnie BreckenridgeOld Lady……………. Beverley KleinVoltaire……………. Mairйad BuickeMaximilian………….. Alex JenningsPaquette……………
Mark StoneCacambo…………… Ferlyn BrassBaron/Informer/Inquisitor/Steward.. James GlenisterSailor/Inquisitor/Steward/Evangelist… Graeme DanbyOfficer/James the Anabaptist…..
Simon ButterissOfficer/Inquisitor/Don Cardinale…. Philip SheffieldBaroness……………. Claire MitcherEnglish National Opera Chorus & Orch/Rumon Gamba (recorded at the London Coliseum most of all aside the BBC)Leonard Bernstein’s Candide is a comedy with a advantageous ending but crushing events at every turn; lousy things betide to the idealistic characters, including extinction, but they unexceptionally most of all borders rebel posteriors from and evolve across it, regularly being resurrected, in accomplishment (or fantasy).