2025 · Music
Genres: Music
One of opera’s greatest depictions of impossible love, Werther is based on Goethe’s epistolary novel The Sorrows of Young Werther. Massenet thought long and hard about adapting Goethe’s story of a melancholy poet whose love for a married woman and general disaffection with the world lead to his…
Director: Dante Ferretti
Writers: Edouard Blau, Paul Milliet, Georges Hartmann
Music by: Jules Massenet