Candide (LSO At Barbican)
Dec 8, 2018 19:12:15 GMT
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Post by AddisonMizner on Dec 8, 2018 19:12:15 GMT
Don’t know if this is the right place for this thread, so please feel free to move if necessary.
I have just spent a thoroughly enjoyable afternoon watching the LSO perform a semi-staged concert version of CANDIDE. I have seen the fully staged Menier production previously.
The piece is bonkers, and somewhat dramatically inert with its episodic structure, but the music carries it through. Tune after tune, and so inventive, excellently performed in this incarnation by a cast of opera singers (as it should be in my opinion). “Make Our Garden Grow” is worth the ticket price alone. After all this silliness, to have something so profound and moving at the end absolutely floors you, and this version will stay with me for a long time. I was breathless, and had tears in my eyes - the sheer forces with full orchestra and everyone singing at full throttle was utterly overwhelming. They then showed a picture of Leonard Bernstein at the end, and I couldn’t control myself. I could barely speak afterwards. Go if you can!
I have just spent a thoroughly enjoyable afternoon watching the LSO perform a semi-staged concert version of CANDIDE. I have seen the fully staged Menier production previously.
The piece is bonkers, and somewhat dramatically inert with its episodic structure, but the music carries it through. Tune after tune, and so inventive, excellently performed in this incarnation by a cast of opera singers (as it should be in my opinion). “Make Our Garden Grow” is worth the ticket price alone. After all this silliness, to have something so profound and moving at the end absolutely floors you, and this version will stay with me for a long time. I was breathless, and had tears in my eyes - the sheer forces with full orchestra and everyone singing at full throttle was utterly overwhelming. They then showed a picture of Leonard Bernstein at the end, and I couldn’t control myself. I could barely speak afterwards. Go if you can!
