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8.7.08

"His face was the true index of his mind"

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Wolf Trap's 'Candide': Limelight Through the Clouds
Washington Post, July 8, 2008

Leonard Bernstein, Candide (1993 concert version)
Wolf Trap Opera
Jason Alexander (Pangloss), Dominic Armstrong (Candide), Anne-Carolyn Bird (Cunegonde), Jamie Van Eyck (Old Lady)
National Symphony Orchestra, Stephen Lord (conductor)
City Choir of Washington
Filene Center, Wolf Trap

Source work:
Voltaire, Candide (1759, PDF scan of first edition), trans. Tobias Smollett

See also:
T. L. Ponick, Alexander just right in 'Candide' (Washington Times, July 8)

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