CANDIDE OPERETTA

Friday 06.01.2023 at 7pm

Director & Choreography Osku Heiskanen (original director Tuomas Parkkinen)
Conductor Jonas Rannila
Kuopio Symphony Orchestra
Candide Chorus

Soloists Kaisa Ranta, Tero Harjunniemi, Heikki Kilpeläinen, Eleriin Müüripeal, Heikki Halinen, Juuso Koski and Heli Immonen

Candide Scottish Opera staged version | Music by Leonard Bernstein | Book by Hugh Wheeler after Voltaire | Lyrics by Richard Wilbur | Additional lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, John La Touche, Lillian Hellman, Dorothy Parker and Leonard Bernstein | Orchestrations by Leonard Bernstein and Hershy Kay | Musical continuity and additional orchestrations by John Mauceri | Finnish translation of dialogue and lyrics by Auli Särkiö-Pitkänen | The performances of Candide are given by permission of Boosey & Hawkes Music Publishers Limited. 

Performed in Finnish.
Duration approximately 2 hours 30 minutes (including interval).

Watch a video.

AT 5 PM. at the Hall of Light
RESTAURANT OODI’S PRE BUFFET
See the menu (in Finnish, pdf opens to a new window)

Satiric operetta, a comic musical or an ironic opera?

All of the above and so much more! Leonard Bernstein’s musical comedy Candide is a jolly horn of plenty for friends of catchy melodies and intelligent humour.

In cooperation with HI Music Productions Oy

Produced by the Kuopio Symphony Orchestra
Tickets: 40 € / 30 € KSO Season Ticket Customers / 20 € children under 16 years and students
Buffet Package (including buffet and ticket): 78 € / 68 € KSO Season Ticket Customers / 58 € students/ 39 € children under 16 years
The buffet package is availabe for purchase until 1 January, 2023.

The ticket prices include the Kuopio Music Centre service fee 2 € / ticket. The service fees vary depending on the place of purchase.