He is the tenor of the hour: While we were working on this annual program, our "Werther," the American tenor Jonathan Tetelman, achieved something like the scene's top prize: Tetelman released his first solo CD - and immediately with Deutsche Grammophon under an exclusive contract. Here, the singer performs the title role in Massenet's opera. A theatrical material of the finest quality, as if made for the Canadian director Robert Carsen, who does a lot of work in France and whose scenic language is understood all over the world. His "Ring des Nibelungen," staged in Cologne, was shown not only in Shanghai but also at the EXPO. This "Werther" is also likely to be a theatrical feast: with highly melodious arias that one immediately wants to whistle; a musical theme of fate that gradually unfolds its down-stretching power; plus a narrative sophistication that reliably exerts its effect.
In French with German and English surtitles.
Program
Jules Massenet Werther
Opera in four acts
New production
Music by Jules Massenet
Libretto by Édouard Blau, Paul Milliet and Georges Hartmann after Goethe's "The Sorrows of Young Werther
Artists
Thomas Hengelbrock DIRECTOR
Robert Carsen INSTRUCTION, LIGHTING
Radu Boruzescu STAGE
Luis F. Carvalho COSTUME
Peter Van Praet LIGHTING
Jonathan Tetelman WERTHER
Kate Lindsey CHARLOTTE
Brandon Cedel ALBERT
Elsa Benoit SOPHIE
Balthasar Neumann Choir
Balthasar Neumann Orchestra
Cooperation and Partnership
Sponsor: Anneliese Grenke
