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Tag Archives: Massenet

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…

November 10, 2015 in Opera.

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…

August 22, 2014 in Opera.

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