The meticulous collaboration to pull off Candide


Oratorio Society of Virginia Music Director Michael Slon conducts musicians during a
rehearsal of Candide. The Society and Ash Lawn Opera are collaborating on two performances of the operetta, which is based on a novella written by Voltaire in 1759 and adapted for
theater by Leonard Bernstein in the 1950s. Image: Chris Pecoraro

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