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The Opening Concert

Candide Matthew Polenzani
Cunegonde Laura Aikin
Dr Pangloss Sir Thomas Allen
Governor/Vanderdendur/Ragotski Keith Lewis
Old Lady Kathryn Harries
Paquette Jennifer Johnston
Bearkeeper/Inquisitor/Tsar Ivan Tim Mirfin

Soloists from the Royal Scottish Academy of Music
and Drama

Edinburgh Festival Chorus
David Jones Chorus Master

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Robert Spano Conductor

Bursting with inventiveness and with a broad range of musical styles Candide is both a fierce satire on American life in the 1950s and great fun. Jazz riffs collide with Broadway tunes. Bernstein’s artistry in melodic invention and wit is supported by orchestration of great sophistication. This is opera at its most entertaining.

What the critics say:

Robert Spano: ‘a phenomenon: he pulls together the most intellectually and emotionally gripping orchestral concerts in New York.’
- THE NEW YORKER