Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Werther is the story of a young poet tortured by unrequited love for Charlotte who ...

The Opera Circle singers captured those emotions, acting with simple gestures and using their voices as if engaged in inner monologues or conversation. In the snug space of Tucker Hall, no one had to ...

The Met Opera regrets to announce that the Met has canceled the remainder of the 2019–20 season of live performances due to the coronavirus pandemic. This includes all performances and Live in HD ...

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 ...

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 ...

This is full-blown, classic opera downsized for the road. Whatever else gets scaled back for touring, such as the orchestra and stage sets, the downsizing can’t include emotional impact. In this way, ...

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 ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Different art forms reframe and reimagine one another to form an original vision ...

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 ...

One of the saddest regressions in Baltimore’s cultural life has been on the operatic front, with the gradual fading away of professional, fully staged productions. The last company to attempt them, ...