Candide

Music by Leonard Bernstein
Libretto by Lillian Hellman
Book by Hugh Wheeler, based on Voltaire

Bergen National Opera

Cast Includes
Anthony Greggory, Gidon Saks, Kitty Whately and Kevin Whately

Open-hearted and good-natured, Candide lives a life of blissful ignorance until war comes to Westphalia. The hapless Candide’s ordered life is thrown into disarray, as he embarks on a round-the-world voyage, bouncing from one rollicking melodrama to the next. Candide’s sunny optimism is put to the test, as he encounters man-eating sharks, duelling sultans and swindling con-artists.