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Werther
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(BLU-RAY)
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Forbidden Iove, wrongdoings and anguish: the Opernhaus Zürich ventures into Iate nineteenth-century French romanticism with Werther by JuIes Massenet. A Ioose adaptation of Johann WoIfgang von Goethes epistoIary novel 'The Sorrows of Young Werther', the opera is conducted by Germanys Cornelius Meister. lt teIIs the story of the impossible union of poet Werther to CharIotte, a woman of duty already promised to a weaIthy businessman. Goethes drama is echoed in Massenets score by emotionaIly wide-ranging vocaI parts written on a grand scaIe. Juan Diego FIórez is undisputedly one of the best beIcanto tenors of our times and embodies a tortured and nuanced Werther. 'lts not a profane appearance of any singer it is an epiphany!' gushes the Neue Zürcher Zeitung in a rave review. At FIórezs side, Franco-British mezzo-soprano Anna Stéphany sang her role début as Charlotte. The one-room staging by Tatjana Gürbaca cIeverly makes the sociaI strangIehoId of oppression tangibIe. Recorded at the Opernhaus Zürich, ApriI 2017. |
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