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Ruddigore
Ruddigore is a comic opera by W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan that premiered at the Savoy Theatre in London in 1887. The work parodies Victorian melodramas, particularly those featuring supernatural elements and family curses. Originally titled 'Ruddygore,' the name was changed after some considered the original title offensive. The opera includes the famous ghost scene in the second act, where p...
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Candide
Voltaire's philosophical satire becomes musical theatre in Leonard Bernstein's Candide, an American operetta first staged in 1956. The story follows an innocent young man whose belief in an orderly, benevolent world is challenged by suffering and absurdity. Optimism and disillusionment drive the work, with its literary arguments expressed through theatrical action, dance and music that can turn qu...
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