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Werther
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(DVD - Code 2)
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Forbidden love, wrongdoings and anguish: the Opernhaus Zürich ventures into late nineteenth-century French romanticism with Werther by JuIes Massenet. A loose adaptation of Johann Wolfgang 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 emotionaIIy wide-ranging vocaI parts written on a grand scale. 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 CharIotte. The one-room staging by Tatjana Gürbaca cleverIy makes the social stranglehold of oppression tangible. Recorded at the Opernhaus Zürich, April 2017. |
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