Candide

Resource Information

The work Candide represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Vancouver Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

Label

Candide

Statement of responsibility

music by Leonard Bernstein ; adapted from Voltaire ; book by Hugh Wheeler ; staged and directed for video by Humphrey Burton ; [a Video Music Production in association with Deutsche Grammophon]

Contributor

• London Symphony Chorus
• London Symphony Orchestra
• Anderson, June, 1952-
• Bayley, Clive
• Benson, Lindsay
• Bernstein, Leonard, 1918-1990
• Burton, Humphrey, 1931-
• Gedda, Nicolai
• Green, Adolph
• Hadley, Jerry
• Jenkins, Neil
• Jones, Della
• Kay, Hershy
• Ludwig, Christa
• Mauceri, John
• Ollmann, Kurt
• Sondheim, Stephen
• Suart, Richard
• Treleaven, John, 1950-
• Voltaire, 1694-1778
• Wheeler, Hugh, 1912-1987
• Wilbur, Richard, 1921-2017

Subject

• Operas

Language

• eng
• eng
• ger
• fre
• eng
• eng

Cataloging source

ZMS

Characteristic

videorecording

Date time place

Videotaped at the Barbican Centre, London, 13 December 1989

Language note

Sung in English; subtitles in English, German and French

PerformerNote

Jerry Hadley (Candide) ; June Anderson (Cunegonde) ; Adoph Green (Dr. Pangloss, Martin) ; Christa Ludwig (Old lady) ; Nicolai Gedda (Governor, Vanderdendur, Ragotski) ; Della Jones (Paquette) ; Kurt Ollmann (Maximilian, Captain) ; Clive Bayley (Bear-Keeper, Inquisitor, Tsar Ivan) ; Neil Jenkins (Cosmetic Merchant, Inquisitor, Price Charles Edward) ; Lindsay Benson (Doctor, Inquisitor, King Stanislaus) ; Richard Suart (Junkman, Inquisitor, King Hermann Augustus) ; John Treleaven (Alchemist, Inquisitor, Sultan Achmet, Crook) ; supporting soloists ; London Symphony Chorus and Orchestra ; Leonard Bernstein, conductor

Runtime

147

Target audience

general

Technique

live action