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Cast Change: Meghan Picerno Joins Cast of LA Opera’s ‘Candide’

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The LA Opera has announced a cast change for its 2026-27 season of “Candide.” The company said Deanna Breiwick will no longer be able to perform Cunegonde and will be replaced by Meghan Picerno. Breiwick also took to social media an said, “I want to share that I’ll be stepping away from Cunegonde in LA Opera’s upcoming production of Candide {…}
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Curtis Opera Theatre to Present ‘Candide’

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The Curtis Opera Theatre’s 2024–25 Centennial Series will conclude with Bernstein’s “Candide.” The work will be performed on April 11 and 13, 2025, at the Forrest Theatre. The work will be directed by Emma Griffin and conducted by David Charles Abell. Griffin’s staging will place the action of Bernstein’s operetta in a large room, reminiscent of an old Marx Brothers {…}
Reviews, Stage Reviews

Opera Australia 2025 Review: Candide

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(Photo credit: Carlita Sari) Lillian Hellman, who suggested the idea of the musical “Candide” to the great American composer Leonard Bernstein, once described Voltaire’s original 1759 novel on which the show is based as “the greatest piece of slapdash ever written.” The novel certainly packs a breathless pace as it follows its eponymous hero on an adversity-filled journey around the {…}
Reviews, Video Productions

Opera Company of Middlebury 2021-22 Review: ‘Candide’

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(Photo: Opera Company of Middlebury) Opera Company of Middlebury’s utterly delightful streaming production of Leonard Bernstein’s “Candide,” originally broadcast in June 2021, is back for a few more days, and viewable on OCM’s YouTube channel through Mar. 1, 2022. Don’t miss it. The pandemic was the mother of innovation. And OCM created the best of all possible worlds (wink, wink) {…}
IndieOpera, Streaming

Opera Company of Middlebury Releases ‘Candide’ Online

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The Opera Company of Middlebury is now streaming its video production of “Candide.” The work stars Joshua Jeremiah as Pangloss, Quinn bernegger as Candide, Cree Carrico as Cunegonde, Blake Jennings as Maximilian, Heather Jones as Paquette, and Tara Curtis as the Old Lady. Other cast members include Joshua Collier, Kian Kreitas, Jim Douglas, Victoria Drew, Allison Steinmetz, Melissa Chesnut-Tangerman, Linda {…}
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Page to Opera Stage: Voltaire’s & Bernstein’s ‘Candide’ Exemplifies (the Best of) All Possible Worlds

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“Page to Opera Stage” looks at stories – real-life or fiction, old and new – that have inspired operas, and the ways these narratives have been edited and dramatized to fit a new medium. This month, we look at Voltaire’s 18th century satirical novel “Candide”, which inspired Leonard Bernstein’s 20th century masterpiece.  The prolific output of French historian, philosopher, satirist, {…}
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Opera Company of Middlebury to Present Cinematic Retelling of “Candide”

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(Credit: Erica Furgiuele) The Opera Company of Middlebury (OCM) in Vermont has announced a cinematic reimagining of Leonard Bernstein’s comic operetta “Candide.” The production will stream online as a ticketed event from June 15 to June 30 on the company’s YouTube channel. OCM’s retelling, which includes narration by former Vermont Governor Jim Douglas, employs traditional theatrical elements alongside modern technology, {…}

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