The flame of satire burns on in controversial Candide Jun 30, 2008
The new production of Leonard Bernstein's Candide, revamped by Canadian director Robert Carsen, had been announced as part of La Scala's lineup, and then mysteriously cancelled ... All the opera house would say was that Candide was not in line with its artistic program ... A few days before Candide was to open, the world's most famous opera house did an about-face. (Globe and Mail)
Lexington at large: Cultivating our own economic garden Jun 12, 2008
In a world with not much to be optimistic about, Voltaire s Candide concluded, We must cultivate our own garden. Perhaps the annual vibrancy of our rhododendrons might inspire us to consider an appropriate restoration of the commercial base that would address the current imbalance. (Lexington Minuteman, MA)
What a person stands for is often a product of who they stand with May 2, 2008
I have cultivated somewhat of a garden here, to reference Candide, my favorite Voltaire satire. I'm not referring to anything that resembles the fake tulips and manure-stenched fertilizer the university orders every spring to beautify the campus overnight. (Daily Collegian, PA)
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I hope the publishing world goes after Voltaire and Swift next because I suspect Candide and Gulliver aren t who they say they are. But you know the reall story here. (International Herald Tribune)
Did Columbus bring back disease? Jan 15, 2008
In Voltaire's satirical work, 'Candide', the title character's congenitally-optimistic tutor, Pangloss, explains how syphilis arrived on Europe's shore, and why all the suffering it caused was justified. "If Columbus had not caught, on an island in the Americas, this sickness which poisons the source of procreation... we would not have had chocolate," he says. (iAfrica.com)
Education group report critical of Wisconsin Nov 14, 2007
The index is named after Pangloss, a character in Candide, an 18th-century novel by the French author Voltaire in which the character Pangloss believes we live in the best of all possible worlds. Advertisement. (Winona Daily News, MN)
Banned books get readers' attention Nov 6, 2007
"The Awakening,' Kate Chopin "The Merchant of Venice," William Shakespeare "The Canterbury Tales," Chaucer "Leaves of Grass," Walt Whitman "Candide," Voltaire "Civil Disobedience," Henry David Thoreau "The Call of the Wild," Jack London Offensive content can cover a range of concerns. The Harry Potter series has drawn criticism from people concerned the books glorify witchcraft and the supernatural and arouse fear in children. According to its Web site, the ALA Office for Intellectual Freedom... (The St. Augustine Record)
He's 'very happy' living life as an atheist Jul 19, 2007
John Shuck wrote on Jul 18, 2007 10:23 PM:" Mark, be concerned for your own soul and stop messin' with everybody else's soul, bro'. Here's another way to look at god if you will. It's a quote from Candide by Voltaire that all religious people should consider. Either god wants to remove all evil from the world, and cannot, or he can and does not want to or he neither wants to nor can, or he wants to and can. If he neither wants to nor can, this is impotence which is contrary to the nature of god;... (Sioux City Journal)
Essential Edinburgh Jul 19, 2007
Candide A concert performance of Leonard Bernstein's flawed but sublime operetta opens the international festival. Robert Spano conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra and a cast led by Matthew Polenzani and Laura Aikin as Candide and Cunegonde, with Thomas Allen as Pangloss and Kathryn Harries as the Old Lady. (Guardian Unlimited)
Reworked Candide opening at La Scala Jun 20, 2007
The curtain goes up this evening in Milan, Italy, on Canadian director Robert Carsen's controversial production of Candide at the famed La Scala opera house for a nine-performance run ... Carsen and Lissner reached a rapprochement in late January in Paris where it was agreed Candide would stay on La Scala's summer roster, subject to some tweaking by Carsen ... Also, said Carsen in an e-mail, "I have made some cuts to the text and music to shorten the piece in the context of a presentation with... (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
London takes on opera that shocked Italy Apr 22, 2007
The new production of Candide - which features attacks on Tony Blair, George Bush and Silvio Berlusconi - is being brought to London by the embattled English National Opera, as the company attempts to demonstrate its cultural cutting edge ... It claimed that Candide was dropped because it was not 'in line with artistic programming ... The request, the spokesman said, was not initially accepted by Robert Carsen, the Canadian director of the lavish production, as the decision to axe Candide at... (Guardian Unlimited -- UK)
MoD refuse pardon for Admiral Byng Mar 15, 2007
He was, it adds, "a Martyr to Political Persecution...when Bravery and Loyalty were Insufficient Securities for the Life and Honour of a Naval Officer." Or, as Voltaire put it more coolly and cynically in his contemporary novel Candide: "In this country, it is wise to kill an admiral from time to time to encourage the others.". As they gathered at the church in Southill, Beds, yesterday at noon, the time of Byng's execution, to lay a wreath and say prayers, with the bell tolling 52 times in... (Guardian Unlimited -- UK)
A can-do Candide attitude Jan 6, 2007
The story began on Dec. 11, with the hugely successful opening at the Chtelet theatre in Paris of Candide, Carsen's cheekily updated version of the 1956 Leonard Bernstein musical based on Voltaire's 1759 satire ... Carsen was caught off guard, because Lissner was familiar with Candide plans a collaboration between Le Chtelet in Paris, La Scala and the English National Opera in London long before he came to Paris ... Revising Candide is nothing new. (Toronto Star)
La Scala Will Stage Revised `Candide,' Director Carsen Says Jan 3, 2007
La Scala Will Stage Revised `Candide,' Director Carsen Says ... Jan. 1 (Bloomberg) -- Robert Carsen, director of Leonard Bernstein's ``Candide,'' which was dropped by Milan's La Scala opera house on Dec. 28, said the production was back on the slate after he agreed to adjust it for the Milanese audience ... Lissner had said he was dropping ``Candide'' from the 2006-7 season -- two days after seeing it for the first time at Paris's Theatre du Chatelet -- because it strayed too far from... (Bloomberg)
La Scala Cancels `Candide' Production Showing Bush on the Beach Dec 31, 2006
La Scala Cancels `Candide' Production Showing Bush on the Beach ... Dec. 29 (Bloomberg) -- Milan's La Scala opera house canceled a production of Leonard Bernstein's ``Candide'' that portrayed world leaders including U.S. President George W. Bush in swimming trunks, drinking and dancing on the beach ... Carsen's version of ``Candide'' is entertaining and a hit with Parisians, Bloomberg News critic Jorg von Uthmann wrote on Dec. 14. (Bloomberg)
Candide in pants too much for La Scala Dec 30, 2006
La Scala opera house is at the centre of a censorship row after it cancelled a staging of Leonard Bernstein's Candide featuring a drunk Silvio Berlusconi and other world leaders dancing in their underpants ... In Voltaire's 18th century satire on the uselessness of philosophical speculation, the eponymous hero Candide meets five former kings on his travels. (Guardian Unlimited -- World)
Modern 'Candide' takes aim at America Dec 22, 2006
Five modern-day kings, among them George W. Bush, are exiled in a remake of "Candide," staged at the Th ... PARIS: In the early 1950s, after Lillian Hellman was interrogated by the House Un-American Activities Committee, she sought revenge by persuading Leonard Bernstein to work with her on a musical adaptation of Voltaire's great satire, "Candide." To both playwright and composer, it seems, the parallels between the Holy Inquisition and the McArthyist witchhunt were self-evident ... And in the... (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Classic battle of the giants in store Dec 7, 2006
Random House challenges market leader Penguin Amis and Rushdie line up beside Swift and Tolstoy. Joel RickettThursday December 7, 2006. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
Voltaire's Candide sparks modern, sexy remake for the stage Oct 18, 2006
Media Credit: Courtesy of Chad JohannesenUNM student Babak Gharaei-Tafti, left, as Martin, and Tricklock Company actor Kevin Elder as Candide ... Sex-craving aliens and a fellatio-performing mermaid are just a couple ingredients spicing up an adaptation of Voltaire's Candide ... Tricklock actor Kevin Elder stars as Candide, who travels from the old world through time periods and locations to find the object of his affection, Cunegonde. (The Daily Lobo, NM)
* Classical DVD review Sep 21, 2006
CANDIDEHadley, Ludwig, Gedda etc ... Leonard Bernstein worked on Candide, his musical version of Voltaires novella, for many years, revising and adding to the score ... Candide is a sort of musical, much influenced by Gilbert and Sullivan, but Cunegondes Glitter and Be Gay (no pun intended) is pure opera. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World Business)
Breakfast On Pluto Jan 7, 2006
In co-writing the script adapted from Patrick McCabe's novel, Jordan was reportedly influenced by "Candide." If so, Voltaire is spinning in his grave, and crying. Kitten isn't Candide; he comes off instead as vapid and childish. (Richmond Times-Dispatch, VA)
