MET Opera: Massenet’s Cendrillon
A fairy godmother, a glass slipper, an opulent ball, an enchanted forest, and a Prince Charming who loves her – did all that really happen, or was it just a…
Truly, madly, but not quite deeply enough: Massenet’s Werther from English Touring Opera
Goethe’s Sorrows of Young Werther pitted religion against Romanticism in a battle royal for the soul of young Germany, which Romanticism won: Werther became a cult hero, even a fashion…
Luxurious, plaintive and dark: Massenet’s Werther, Grimeborn
Massenet’s Werther is a tragic tale of unrealised and forbidden passion between a dutiful wife (Charlotte) and her husband Albert’s best friend, Werther, whose final, violent resolution comes at that most…