Candide
Welsh National Opera
Choreographer
Director: James Bonas
Conductor: Karen Kamensek
Animations: Grégoire Pont
Set: Thibault Vancraenenbroeck
Costume: Nathalie Pallandre
Lighting Designer: Rob Casey
Video Editing: Xavier Boyer
Sound Designer: Sebastian Frost
“The combination of the visual cleverness and cuteness and the sophistication and joy of Ewan Jones’ choreography is a rare treat – go and see it!”
— Opera Scene | *****
“WNO’s excellent chorus is complemented by a dance troupe executing Ewan Jones’s Broadway-style choreography with parodistic wit.”
— The Times |****
“WNO have found an answer. Could it be they have, indeed, mounted the best of all possible productions?”
— Wales Arts Review
“Ewan Jones’s choreography of the energetic eight-person Musical Theatre Ensemble create some great set-pieces, notably the Paris street-sweepers with heroine Cunégonde as she sings the stratospheric Glitter and be gay, the sleazy dance of What’s the use? and the buzz of the Eldorado department store.”
— The Telegraph
“Ewan Jones choreographs the kind of stylish dance that helps ensure a sense of narrative movement and line.”
— The Stage
“Here the success is based on wonderful choreography of a group of dancers, delightfully daft and splendidly sung performances from an energetic jolly cast, and a magical use of visual graphics that were utterly transfixing.”
— Opera Scene