Schedule - Deutsche Oper Berlin
Werther (konzertant)
Jules Massenet (1842 – 1912)
Opera in four acts
Libretto by Edouard Blau, Paul Milliet and Georges Hartmann, based on the novel The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang Goethe
First performance on 16 February 1892 in Vienna
Premiered at the Deutsche Oper Berlin on 23 July 2025
2 Stunden 45 Minuten / Eine Pause
In französischer Sprache mit deutschen und englischen Übertiteln
Einführung: 45 Minuten vor Vorstellungsbeginn im Rang-Foyer rechts
empfohlen ab 14 Jahren- Premiere23202519:30JulWedC prices: € 108.00 / 90.00 / 64.00 / 40.00 / 26.00
- Last Performance25202518:00JulFriC prices: € 108.00 / 90.00 / 64.00 / 40.00 / 26.00
Präsentiert von radio3 vom rbb
One of the astonishing facts of music history is that almost all of the great operas based on Goethe were written in France. Alongside Gounod's and Berlioz's Faust settings and Ambroise Thomas's MIGNON, Jules Massenet's WERTHER is the most prominent example in this series. Premiered in Vienna in 1892, the work is also one of Massenet's most successful operas and, in its expressive immediacy, a pinnacle of the "drame lyrique".
Concert performances of WERTHER at the Deutsche Oper Berlin have often offered the opportunity to experience the great tenors of their time in the role of the suicidal poet. After Alfredo Kraus in 1998 and Vittorio Grigolo in 2014, this time it is the turn of the American Jonathan Tetelman, who has already introduced himself to Berlin audiences as Luigi in Puccini's IL TRITTICO and as Paolo il bello in Zandonai's FRANCESCA DA RIMINI. At his side, Aigul Akhmetshina, one of the most exciting female singer discoveries of recent years, sings the role of Charlotte.
