"Phares is quite a find as the handsome Maximilian whose crush on Candide is one of the director's more clever touches."
July 20, 2002, by Octavio Roca
Book: Hugh Wheeler
Music: Leonard Bernstein
Lyrics: Richard Wilbur
Additional Lyrics: John Latouche, Dorothy Parker, Lillian Hellman, Leonard Bernstein & Stephen Sondheim
Conductor: Patrick Summers
Chorus Master: Vance George
Produced by: San Francisco Symphony
Theatre: Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco, CA