Christine Ebersole and Kelsey Grammer make their Los Angeles Opera debuts in Candide beginning January 27.
The two-time Tony Award winner will take on the role of the Old Lady (a role coincidentally played previously by Patti LuPone, who shared the Broadway stage with Ebersole last season in War Paint). Grammer (Fraiser, Finding Neverland) will play Pangloss.
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The cast also includes Jack Swanson as Candide, Erin Morley (recently in Les Contes d’Hoffmann at the Met) as Cunegonde, Theo Hoffman as Maximillian/Reverend Father, Matthew Scollin as Martin, Brian Michael Moore as the Grand Inquisitor, and Taylor Raven as the Baroness. Francesca Zambello directs.
The production is part of a worldwide, two-year celebration of the Leonard Bernstein centennial. Morley will sing the role of Cunegonde again at Carnegie Hall in an April concert presentation of Candide as part of the centennial.
Next year, Carnegie Hall's house band will perform Bernstein’s “Kaddish” Symphony, unfinished works by Schubert, and the final concert of Conductor Bernard Labadie.
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