Candide – review

Barbican, LondonIf anyone can claim a tradition of performing Candide, it is surely the London Symphony Orchestra. It was with the LSO and its Chorus that Leonard Bernstein conducted his operetta at the Barbican in 1989, followed by a studio recording and the creation of a definitive version of the score more than 30 years after its first performance. Since then, there has been another LSO concert performance, under Tilson Thomas, and now comes a third, this one conducted by Kristjan Järvi, wh...

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