| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 30-Apr-2013 Staatsoper | Werther at the Wiener Staatsoper |
 Goethe’s epistolary novel Die Leiden des jungen Werthers (“The Sorrows of Young Werther”) hit the 1774 zeitgeist not only because it brought back emotion to the rather sober Age of Enlightenment, but because the tragic title hero sports a multi-faceted character that lends itself to various interpretations and projections, therefore making it easy to feel sympathy or even partly identify with the young man who kills himself because his beloved Lotte is married to another.Read full review... | |
| 17-Feb-2013 Theatre Royal | Splendid singing in Scottish Opera's quirky production of Werther |
 The world of opera can sometimes be hard for the newcomer to love as there are often fiendishly complicated and frequently unbelievable plots to get to grips with. Jules Massenet’s opera Werther is happily none of these: it is a straightforward story of unrequited love.
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| 20-Nov-2012 Civic Opera House | Screens, dreams in Negrin's Werther at the Lyric Opera of Chicago |
 In Francisco Negrin’s production of Massenet’s Werther, currently at the Lyric Opera, the opera’s first scene appears through a semi-transparent screen upon which an image of a row of houses is projected. Then the screen rises, and we enter fully into the dream.
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| 12-May-2012 Kennedy Center: Opera House | An Ever-Modern Werther Conquers Washington National Opera |
 When I heard that Washington National Opera’s upcoming production of Jules Massenet’s romantic and beautifully tragic opera Werther would be set in the 20th century, I was intrigued. Indeed, based on the famous 18th-century epistolary novel by Goethe, would the tale of a young poet ending his life due to an unrequited love look ridiculously outdated – or, on the contrary, would it acquire new meaning in a modern environment?
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