Life is not always happiness, indeed. Or is it? To wit: "Candide," the musical with a glorious score by Leonard Bernstein and words by a kitchen-sinkful of distinguished writers, has been a problem ...

The South Florida Symphony Orchestra premieres “Candide” as part of its “Icons & Rebels Masterworks” season with performances in Miami Beach, Fort Lauderdale and Key West. (Photo courtesy of South ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. It's hard to know how to categorize composer Leonard Bernstein's Candide, ...

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 ...

Leonard Bernstein’s operetta Candide deserves its place of honor in the repertoire of any contemporary classical music company. Since its Broadway debut in 1956 as a musical, the complex yet ...

The San Francisco Symphony's recent concert performances of Leonard Bernstein's comic operetta "Candide," conducted by Michael Tilson Thomas, should have been the icing on the cake in the season-long ...

Bernstein's operetta had a long and tortuous route to its final version. The journey of Candide from 1956 failed comic operetta to perpetual Classic FM Hall of Fame favourite is as intriguing as the ...

About the Album: Marin Alsop leads the London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus in a new recording of Bernstein's riotous satirical operetta, Candide. Made almost three decades after the composer's own ...

In “Candide,” the title character endures multiple misadventures, including heartbreak, travel fatigue and the Inquisition. In other words, it’s the ultimate feel-good show. Funny, free-wheeling and ...

Reporting from San Francisco — In the annals of Leonard Bernstein, it is common to dismiss the West Coast. The composer was a native Bostonian and a New York icon who didn’t have all that much to do ...

In “Candide,” the title character endures multiple misadventures, including heartbreak, travel fatigue and the Inquisition. In other words, it’s the ultimate feel-good show. Funny, free-wheeling and ...

In his Los Angeles Opera program note for Leonard Bernstein’s “Candide,” which opened at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion on Saturday night, music director James Conlon points out that the original ...