Exact pendant de West Side Story écrit à la même époque, Candide présente, face au manifeste d’une Amérique moderne, urbaine et rythmique, le versant d’une Europe où gavottes et valses accompagnent les malheurs initiatico-philosophiques du jeune Candide sur le vieux continent. Avec sa singulière absence de jazz, Candide nous vexerait presque... s’il ne renfermait un hommage passionné à un paysage inaccessible à nos yeux: l’Europe des Lumières, vue depuis l’Amérique.
Who hasn’t heard of Candide, a naive young man who lives through extraordinary adventures, the anti-hero who emerged straight from the ironic quill of Voltaire? Yet Candide is also a comic operetta by Leonard Bernstein. The exact counterpart and contemporary of West Side Story, his Candide contrasts the manifesto of a modern, urban and rhythmical America with a Europe where gavottes and waltzes accompany the misfortunes of the young Candide on the Old Continent, misfortunes that make up his philosophical inititation. With its singular absence of jazz, one could almost take offence at Candide … if it did not contain a passionate homage to a landscape inaccessible to our eyes: the Europe of the Enlightenment, viewed from America, and delivered in an extremely sarcastic tone! In this semi-scenic version, Patrick Leterme and Charles Michiels direct a 100-per-cent Belgian team: the Candide Symphonic Orchestra, a choir composed of singers at the dawn of a promising career. Alongside them, young Belgian soloists: Thomas Blondelle, Sarah Defrise, Shadi Torbey, etc. So many talents engaging passionately with Bernstein’s score and the civic values conveyed by his libretto, which will lead you in the wake of Candide’s mad adventures to discover his strange rite of passage.
Programme
Program
Comic operetta en deux actes
D’après « Candide ou l’optimisme » de Voltaire
Musique de Leonard Bernstein / Livret de Lilian Hellman, revu par Hugh Wheeler et John Wells
Paroles de Richard Wilbur, John Latouche, Dorothy Parker, Lilian Hellman, Leonard Bernstein
Une coproduction de Candide Asbl, des Festivals de Wallonie, de l’Opéra Royal de Wallonie, du PBA (Palais des Beaux-Arts de Charleroi Asbl) et du Rotary Bruxelles-Europe.
Comic operetta in two acts
Based on Candide ou l’optimisme by Voltaire
Music by Leonard Bernstein / Libretto by Lilian Hellman, revised by Hugh Wheeler and John Wells
Lyrics by Richard Wilbur, John Latouche, Dorothy Parker, Lilian Hellman, Leonard Bernstein
Co-produced by Candide asbl, Les Festivals de Wallonie asbl, the Opéra Royal de Wallonie, the Palais des Beaux-Arts of Charleroi asbl and the Brussels-Europe Rotary Club
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Artistes
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