The Orchestra Now Presents
Leonard Bernstein's Candide
Saturday, February 25, 2017
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater
8:00 pm EST/GMT-5
TON associate conductor and academic director James Bagwell will lead two performances of Leonard Bernstein’s acclaimed opera Candide, based on the immortal comic classic by Voltaire.8:00 pm EST/GMT-5
Stephen Sondheim and Lillian Hellman contributed to Richard Wilbur’s libretto. The program will be sung by more than a dozen soloists from the Bard College Conservatory Graduate Vocal Arts Program, with the Bard College Symphonic Chorus and Bard College Chamber Singers.
Director Michael Hofman writes “Candide possesses a compositional style that straddles the line between the orchestral complexity and vocal prowess of operatic writing and the tunefulness and wit of American musical theater all while drawing from a broad diversity of European and North and South American musical idioms. Like the story of Candide itself, Bernstein brings you on a journey through musical time and space that all somehow remains very distinctly his own, tongue-in-cheek and winking.”
Learn about Candide in this NPR feature.
Listen to an audio sample of Candide at WQXR.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail [email protected],
or visit http://fishercenter.bard.edu/calendar/event.php?eid=131380.
Time: 8:00 pm EST/GMT-5
Location: Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater
Ticket Information: Tickets: $25–35; free for Bard students (call 845-758-7900 to reserve tickets)Buy Tickets