Candide
Candide
Candide

Candide

Trailer
Introduction
Fri, 08/05
07.30 pm-10.30 pm

one interval

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Comic Operetta

Music by Leonard Bernstein
Book by Hugh Wheeler based on Voltaire
Vocal texts by Richard Wilbur, Stephen Sondheim, John La Touche, Lilian Hellman, Dorothy Parker und Leonard Bernstein
German dialogue version by Stephan Kopf, Zelma and Michael Millard
Based on the novel by Voltaire

Premiered December 17, 2015, Reithalle


Spoken in German, sung in English

Age recommendation: 12 years and above

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The young Candide grows up with the two half-grown children of his uncle, Baron Thunder-ten-tronckh, Cunegonde and Maximilian, well sheltered in the latter’s castle in Westphalia. From their common tutor, the philosopher Dr. Pangloss, the three of them are educated together with the chambermaid Paquette in the secure belief that they are living in the »best of all possible worlds«. When Candide is ultimately disowned by his own family and must leave for the wide world he starts on a journey in the course of which he becomes the victim of natural disasters as well as witness to political and religious conflicts, abuse, treachery and deadly diseases, but none of which can however pry him loose from maintaining his unshakeable optimism about the »best of all worlds«.

Leonard Bernstein took the philosophical-satirical novel »Candide or Optimism« of the French Enlightenment thinker Voltaire from 1759 as a model for his »comic operetta« in two acts which premiered on New York’s Broadway on 1 December 1956. The composer subsequently revised his own work with the aid of various authors a number of times. Inspired by the caustic, socially critical irony of Voltaire, Bernstein created for his best known drama alongside of »West Side Story« music that in its poignant mixture of operetta, musical and cabaret at the same time constituted, as the composer himself once remarked, a »declaration of love to European music«, which quotes both European dance forms like the gavotte, the mazurka or the polka as well as traditions from Italian bel canto opera.

Cast on 08/05/2020

Regie und Choreografie Adam Cooper
Bühne Rainer Sinell
Dramaturgie Daniel C. Schindler

Voltaire / Pangloss / Cacambo / Martin Alexander Franzen
Maximilian / Kapitän Daniel Gutmann
Die alte Lady Dagmar Hellberg
Paquette u.a. Susanne Seimel
Erster Offizier / Erster Inquisitor / Richter / Don Issachar / Gouverneur / Vanderdendur / Ragotzky Juan Carlos Falcón
James / Zweiter Inquisitor / Richter / Kardinalerzbischof / Erster Jesuit / Hermann Augustus Holger Ohlmann
Dritter Inquisitor / Richter / Sklaventreiber / Zar Iwan Martin Hausberg
Matrose / Kellner / Zweiter Señor / Stanislaus u. a. Peter Neustifter
Zweiter Spitzel / Erster Señor / Charles Edward u. a. Gunnar Frietsch
Erster Spitzel / Sultan Achmet III. / Gauner u. a. Christian Schleinzer
Baronin Thunder-ten-Tronk / Kellnerin / Matrosin u. a. Lisa-Marie Rettenbacher
Zweiter Offizier u. a. Evita Komp
Baron Thunder-ten-Tronk / Henker / Sklave Markus Hofmann
Mädchen / Tänzerinnen Anastasia Stojko / Helena Sturm
Affen / Tänzer Oliver Petriglieri / Thiago Fayad
Kosmetikhändler Harin Lee / Stefan Thomas
Trödler Marcus Wandl / Aran Matsuda

Choir of the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz
Orchestra of the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz

Fri, 08/05
07.30 pm-10.30 pm

one interval

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Glitter and be gay

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Candide © Christian POGO Zach
Candide © Christian POGO Zach
Candide © Christian POGO Zach
Candide © Christian POGO Zach
Candide © Christian POGO Zach
Candide © Christian POGO Zach
Candide © Christian POGO Zach
Candide © Christian POGO Zach
Candide © Christian POGO Zach
Candide © Christian POGO Zach
Candide © Christian POGO Zach
Candide © Christian POGO Zach
Candide © Christian POGO Zach
Candide © Christian POGO Zach