Candide /

Adaptation of Voltaire's fable about a young man whose simplicity and optimism drop him into one disaster after another.

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors:	London Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Chorus, Deutsche Grammophon (Firm), PolyGram Video (Firm)
Other Authors:	Hadley, Jerry, Anderson, June, 1952-, Green, Adolph, Ludwig, Christa, Gedda, Nicolai, Jones, Della, Ollmann, Kurt, Bayley, Clive, Jenkins, Neil, Benson, Lindsay, Suart, Richard, Treleaven, John, 1950-, Voltaire, 1694-1778, Bernstein, Leonard, 1918-1990
Format:	Video DVD
Language:	English
Published:	Hamburg : New York, NY : Deutsche Grammophon ; Manufactured and marketed by PolyGram Video, [1991]
Subjects:	Operas.

Description
Summary:	Adaptation of Voltaire's fable about a young man whose simplicity and optimism drop him into one disaster after another.
Item Description:	Videodisc release of the opera performed by the London Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican Centre, London, in December 1989. Program notes and plot synopsis by John Wells in English with French translation (10 pages : ill., ports.) inserted in container. Based on the story by Voltaire. "072 523-1." Videorecording.
Physical Description:	2 videodiscs (147 min.) : sound, color ; 12 in.
Format:	Extended play CLV.
Production Credits:	Conductor, Leonard Bernstein ; lyrics by Leonard Bernstein, Lillian Hellman, John La Touche, Dorothy Parker, Stephen Sondheim and Richard Wilbur ; staged and directed for video by Humphrey Burton.