“Italy had its renaissance, Germany its reformation, France had Voltaire”, the historian Will Durant once commented. Born François-Marie Arouet, Voltaire (1694-1778) was known in his lifetime as the ...

In his Los Angeles Opera program note for Leonard Bernstein’s “Candide,” which opened at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion on Saturday night, music director James Conlon points out that the original ...

In Voltaire’s “Candide,” the main character Candide travels through the world in the pursuit of reuniting with his one true love, the beautiful Cunégonde. Throughout his journey, Candide visits Lisbon ...

Leonard Bernstein’s operetta Candide deserves its place of honor in the repertoire of any contemporary classical music company. Since its Broadway debut in 1956 as a musical, the complex yet ...

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Reading is one of my passions. I like books that make me think. Voltaire’s Candide is one of those exceptional novels that work on the reader’s sensibilities. "‘The most useful books," he wrote, "are ...

Format : 11 x 18 cm / 256 pp. Qu'est-ce que Candide ? Le conte le plus court, le plus comique, le plus connu des Lumières. Condamné en plusieurs pays, lors de sa parution, pour indécence et ...

Matthew Sharpe works for Deakin, and received funding in the past from the ARC for work on the history of the idea of philosophy as a way of life. “Italy had its renaissance, Germany its reformation, ...