Candide (2018)

When young Candides marriage offer to a barons daughter backfires the naïve student of optimism is hurled into an eyeopening journey around the globe discovering the horrors of existence at every step Turning Voltaires Candide a stinging blast against tyranny and feigned moralising into toewiggling musical theatre is a crazy idea Bernstein revised his operetta countless times before settling on the final version The Grange Festivals 2018 semistaged production commemorates the composers 100th birthday