New England Conservatory (NEC) Opera Theater presents Leonard Bernstein's Candide in Northeastern University's Blackman Auditorium April 24-27. Blackman Auditorium is located at 346 Huntington Avenue in Boston.
"Everything that happens must be for the best" in Leonard Bernstein's comic operetta Candide. The biting satire of Lillian Hellman's libretto, an adaptation of Voltaire's 1758 novella, traces the adventures of callow Candide as he travels through Europe and to the fabled land of Eldorado during the Spanish Inquisition. Performed by an all-student cast and orchestra, Candide is directed by Marc Astafan and conducted by Timothy Myers. Tickets are $14 or $12 for students and seniors. WGBH members receive 2-for-1 tickets with i.d. For tickets, call the Jordan Hall box office at (617) 536-2412.
The performances on Thursday, April 24 through Saturday, April 26 will be at 8:00 p.m., and the Sunday, April 27 performance will be at 3:00 p.m. Candide is the second of two landmarks of American opera being presented in NEC Opera Theater's 2003 season, along with Aaron Copland's The Tender Land, which was performed in January.
One of the earliest connections between composers Leonard Bernstein and Aaron Copland happened at NEC, when in 1942 Bernstein conducted a performance of Copland's The Second Hurricane in NEC's Jordan Hall. Such was the beginning of a life-long friendship and mutual admiration between two of America's greatest composers.
For more information, call the NEC Concert Line at (617) 585-1122 or visit NEC on the web at http://www.newenglandconservatory.edu/calendar.
ABOUT NEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORYRecognized nationally and internationally as a leader among music schools, New England Conservatory, the only music school in America to be designated a National Historic Landmark, was founded in 1867. New England Conservatory presents more than 600 free concerts each year in NEC's Jordan Hall and throughout New England. The college program instructs more than 750 undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral music students from around the world, and has a faculty of 225 artist-teachers and scholars.
Through its Preparatory School, School of Continuing Education, and Community Collaboration Programs for pre-college students, adults, and elders, NEC offers a complete music curriculum. Educated as complete musicians, NEC alumni fill orchestra chairs, concert hall stages, jazz clubs, and recording studios worldwide. Nearly half of the Boston Symphony Orchestra is composed of NEC faculty and alumni.
NEC founded and is the educational partner and broadcast home for "From the Top," a weekly radio program that showcases outstanding young classical musicians from the entire country, now carried by more than two hundred stations throughout the United States.
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