Editor's Choice
Candide
Victorian Opera: Candide
Palais Theatre, St Kilda St Kilda, VIC, Australia
Leonard Bernstein’s dazzling score makes up for a convoluted plot that went through more incarnations than Doctor Who (despite a brilliant patchwork of lyrics by the likes of Stephen Sondheim, Lillian Hellman and Dorothy Parker). Voltaire’s tale of lost innocence and the painful realisation that all may not be for…