Ensemble Series: Texas State Opera Theatre
Ensemble Series presents
Texas State Opera Theatre
under the direction of Dr. Samuel Mungo
7:30 p.m.
Evans Auditorium
Expelled from home, drafted into the Bulgarian army, flogged before the Spanish Inquisition, swindled out of a fortune, shipwrecked on a desert isle, and separated time and again from true love. This is cause for optimism? Of course! Based on Voltaire's classic novel, CANDIDE is part sophisticated operetta, part wacky screwball comedy with shades of Monty Python. This funny, irreverent satire is the perfect musical expression of Voltaire's tongue-in-cheek send-up of blind hopefulness. Featuring a soaring, legendary score by Leonard Bernstein, the story follows the young, na?ve Candide as he attempts to apply his tutor Dr. Pangloss' relentless but unrealistic philosophy of life, while undergoing a series of disastrous situations- never giving up his search for truth in this "best of all possible worlds."
Featuring the combined efforts of the Texas State Opera Theatre and Symphony!