18 hours Ago By Francisco Salazar
The Curtis Opera Theatre’s 2024–25 Centennial Series will conclude with Bernstein’s “Candide.”The work will be performed on April 11 and 13, 2025, at the Forrest Theatre.The work will be directed by Emma Griffin and conducted by David Charles Abell.
Griffin’s staging will place the action of Bernstein’s operetta in a large room, reminiscent of an old Marx Brothers set—visually modern yet rooted in a type of vaudeville “Borscht Belt” comedy, an influence on the work when it was written in the 1950s.The cast will include tenor Landry Allen as Candide, soprano Emilie Kealani as Cunegonde, baritone Emilio Vásquez as Candide’s tutor Pangloss, baritone Nathan Schludecker as Maximilian, mezzo-soprano Katie Trigg as the Old Lady, and soprano Emily Damasco as Paquette.The cast is rounded out with Evan Gray, Juliet Rand, Hongrui Ren, Robert Frazier, Ross Macatangay, Jackson Allen, Yulin Yan, Sam Higgins, and Shikta Mukherjee.
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