Scottish Opera: Candide

This energetic production aims to embrace the audience in a fully immersive experience, as they are swept along with the larger-than-life characters on their chaotic adventures across Europe and South America. Putting audience members at the heart of the action, as they follow the performers around the outdoor marquee this is an opportunity to experience opera in an exciting new way.

Director Jack Furness and designer Tim Meacock find constant energy, surreal comedy, and joyful subversion in Candide’s adventures. William Morgan (The Gondoliers 2021) plays the idealist Candide, with Paula Sides as his beloved Cunegonde. The ensemble cast includes Susan Bullock (Breaking the Waves 2019), Ronald Samm (Pagliacci 2018), and Jamie MacDougall (A Midsummer Night’s Dream 2022). Bernstein’s brilliant score gives The Orchestra of Scottish Opera a particular chance to shine.