Candide and Maximillian argue over Cunegonde and Candide stabs Maximillian.

The Governor falls for Maximillian and is so disgusted upon learning his true gender that he decides to execute him, but later decides to sell him to a monastery instead. There they are reunited with Maximillian (disguised as a woman) and Paquette, whom the Governor of Cartagena, Columbia has purchased as concubines. Candide managers to escape with Cunegonde, thanks to the Old Lady, and they set forth on a harrowing journey to the New World. Pangloss, who is now a beggar, is also discovered and they are reunited and sentenced before the Spanish Inquisition and Pangloss is hanged. After many misadventures, Candide is borne to Portugal where he discovers Cunegonde raped and almost dead.

Candide and Cunegonde fall in love and once their feelings are discovered, Candide is banished from Barony and tricked into joining the Bulgarian army to ravage his own homeland.

Pangloss tutors four children based on his philosophy that “all is for the best in this best of all possible worlds.” The children are Cunegonde and Maximillian, the beautiful daughter and son of the Baron, Paquette, a servant girl, and Candide, a bastard cousin. In the castle of Baron Thunder-Ten-Tronck in Westphalia, Dr. Premiered at Theatre Royal, Glasgow on May 17, 1988

Performed in English with English subtitles Lyrics by Richard Wilburn, Stephen Sondheim, John La Touche, Lillian Hellman, Dorothy Parker, and Leonard Bernstein

Candide la opera