from Act I of the English opera Candide by Leonard Bernstein

Libretto: Richard Wilbur

Role: Candide, a bastard in a noble family

Voice Part: tenor       Fach: lyric tenor

Setting: Lisbon, 18th century

Synopsis: An earthquake has destroyed Lisbon and Candide is sentenced to hang for heresy along with his friend Pangloss. Believing that there is good in the world, Candide decides that it must be his fault that life is not going the way he wants it.