Boston Lyric Opera (BLO) unleashes Jules Massenet's melodic, romantic French opera Werther from its late 18th Century German source material, bringing it to an early-20th-Century arrondissement ...

Listen to our quick overview of this week's opera broadcast of Jules Massenet's Werther, airing Saturday at noon. This week, Classical 91.7’s program director St.John Flynn, and opera expert, Eric ...

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Jules Massenet’s “Werther” is a staple of the European opera house repertory, but its Goethe-inspired protagonist remains an infrequent visitor to American shores. Despite the fact that the opera ...

The Boston Public Library’s Abbey Room filled with song Thursday night as cast members from Boston Lyric Opera’s upcoming production of “Werther” performed short excerpts from the opera for a packed ...

Massenet's "Werther," which returned to the War Memorial Opera House on Wednesday night for the first time in 25 years, is not so much tragic as gloom laden, a fraught tale of missed connections and ...

He loves her; she’s already betrothed to someone else and holding to her promise to her mother to marry that man. Over four acts our title character’s depression deepens while his frustration grows.

Tenor Jonas Kaufmann stars as the tortured poet in the Met’s new production of Jules Massenet’s Werther on Great Performances at the Met Sunday, July 20 at 12 pm on PBS. (In New York, THIRTEEN airs ...

What was up with all those chairs? We’ll get to that. The good news was the Boston Lyric Opera’s staging of Jules Massenet’s “Werther,” which opened Friday evening at the Shubert Theatre, featuring ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Who said that Puccini and Tchaikovsky gave us the height of operatic passion? Try the later stages of this revival of ...

THE story of Werther began life as a hugely successful 18th century tragic novel by Goethe His story, The Sorrows of Young Werther, told of a man who is consumed by his love for a married woman. A ...