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Composer Leonard Bernstein.

Leonard Bernstein wrote an operetta based on a work by Voltaire with a libretto originally by Lillian Hellman. What is the name of that operetta?

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It is Candide, which is based on the novella of the same name. By the way, the libretto that is performed today was written bu Hugh Wheeler and unlike Hellman’s follows Voltaire’s work closely. Although there is only one composer of the operetta, the present libretto has contributions from a total of 10 authors, including Hellman and Wheeler.