What is it? Leonard Bernstein’s œuvres are simply “eclectic”, but where is Candide positioned? Is it opera? Broadway©? operetta? musical? LA Opera sets out to erase those question marks by addressing it in one zingy answer: turn to Francesca Zambello’s vision in this pastiche of quirky charisma.

Loren Meeker (associate director), James Noone (set designer), Jennifer Moeller (costume designer), Mark McCullough (lighting designer), Eric Sean Fogel (choreographer) Los Angeles Opera and Chorus and Orchestra, Grant Gershon (chorus director), Roberto Cani (concertmaster), James Conlon (conductor)įrancesca Zambello (stage director), E. Kelsey Grammer (Voltaire, Pangloss), Christine Ebersole (Old Lady), Jack Swanson (Candide), Erin Morley (Cunegonde), Theo Hoffman (Maximilian), Peabody Southwell (Paquette), Matthew Scollin (James the Anabaptist, Martin), Brian Michael Moore (Grand Inquisitor, Governor of Montevideo), Joshua Wheeker (Cacambo), Taylor Raven (Baroness, Vanderdendur, Lisbonite), Tom Berklund (Lisbonite), Tim Campbell (Bavarian Captain, Second Inquisition agent, Señor, Surinam slave), Katherine Henly (Bavarian corporal, Sheep), Danny Lindgren (King of Bavaria, Lisbon sailor, Montevideo priest), Amber Liekhus (Lisbonite, Queen of Eldorado), Robert Norman (Holland minister, Don Issachar, Señor, King of Eldorado), Steve Pence (Baron, First Inquisition agent, Galley captain), Michelle Siemens (Minister’s wife), Eboni Adams, Andrea Beasom, Tucker Reed Breder, Amanda Compton LoPresti (ensemble)

Candide la opera