Candide the Musical

I was looking at some adaptations of Candide, and I found one interesting one, Leonard Bernstein's operetta Candide. Leonard Bernstein was an American composer and conductor who lived from 1918 and was most famous for being the longtime conductor of the New York Philharmonic and for composing the music to works like West Side Story. I thought it was cool that such a famous composer and musical figure had based a work off of Candide, but it sort of makes sense to me as the comic tone of Candide could certainly work as a stage show. Another interesting thing I found is that the original Broadway version used many of the plot elements of Candide but did not exactly follow its plot. A later revision more closely follows the plot of the original novel. There are some videos on Youtube of various performances, so you can find your favorite scenes from Voltaire sung on stage. Below is an aria called "Glitter and Be Gay," which is one of the more famous arias from the work, noted for its difficulty to sing, as well as the overture to the operetta.