Additional lyrics by John La Touche, Dorothy Parker, Lillian Hellman, Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim, John Wells.

This is the final revised version of 1989.

The Booklet contains a big B&W drawing of Voltaire, a big B&W picture for each of Leonard Bernstein (young and older), Jerry Hadley, June Anderson, Christa Ludwig, Adolph Green, Nicolai Gedda, Della Jones, Kurt Ollmann, the whole orchestra. There are also medium B&W pictures of Justin Brown (assistant director), Adolph Green with Leonard Bernstein, and of other cast members together.

There's a 7 pages introduction by Andrew Porter, a translation in Deutch (8 pages), in French (8 pages), in Italian (8 pages). There is also a Leonard Bernstein biography (4 pages, about 1 language on each page), and a one page biography in four languages (along with the big picture) of each of the main performers.

The libretto is printed in Deutch, English and French. The synopsis is included in the libretto (it's by John Wells). Libretto translations are by Alain Jomy.

What to say? Candide is one of my very prefered musicals. This version is between the Scottish Opera production and the New Broadway Cast in terms of sound, that is it sounds a little less operatic than the Scottish Opera recording, but as it is much longer, it has that weight only operas have. I simply must say that I love this recording, both for the score, the lyrics and the performers.