Kelsey Grammer makes his L.A. Opera debut co-starring with Broadway's Christine Ebersole in Leonard Bernstein's most troubled composition, 'Candide.' By Jordan Riefe Produced a year before Leonard ...

Benjamin Robinson as the world-traveling Candide Credit: Photo courtesy of Opera in the Heights There are so many glories to be gleaned from Opera in the Heights’ spirited production of Leonard ...

The closing curtsies of the cast of Candide, an English-language operetta with music by Leonard Bernstein and lyrics by Richard Wilbur, were met with thunderous applause on opening night. With a ...

In the best of all possible worlds, Leonard Bernstein is a genius and his musical-operetta “Candide” is a great work. In real life, “Candide” invariably leaves me struggling, just like its protagonist ...

Cast: David Adams, Megan King, Jake Coleman, Tommy Rowell, Paul Houghtaling, Patrick Jacobs, Aimee Riemersma, April Golliver; with the Mobile Opera Chorus. : Mobile Opera opens its 65th season with ...

Candide might have been an idiot. But the New York City Opera was no fool to stage the operetta, which closed on Sunday after a two-week run. Voltaire’s novella is well suited to light opera, a madcap ...

Even faced with a 35 per cent funding cut, WNO give Bernstein's tricky take on Voltaire a valiant, handsome staging Telegraph Opera Critic, Nicholas Kenyon, is an author and academic, and former ...