Organization

Conductor

Francesco Pasqualetti

Stage director

Stefano Vizioli

Lighting designer

Vincenzo Raponi

Costume designer

Anna Maria Heinreich

Video designer

Imaginarium Studio

Assistant Director

Pierluigi Vanelli

Singer

Mezzo-soprano

Mariangela Marini

Charlotte

Set designer

Emanuele Sinisi

Tenor

Francesco Demuro

Werther

Bass

Alberto Comes

The bailiff

Sonia Ganassi

Baritone

Guido Dazzini

Albert

Nicola Di Filippo

Schmidt

Filippo Rotondo

Johann

Soprano

Maria Rita Combattelli

Sophie

Andrea Gervasoni

Bruhlmann

Luisa Bertoli

Kathchen

Chorus master

Paolo Gattolin

I Teatri di Reggio Emilia

Teatro Comunale di Ferrara

Teatro Comunale di Modena

Teatro di Pisa

OperaLombardia

Others

Voci bianche della Fondazione Teatro Comunale di Modena

Gillen Munguía

Pisa

Italy

Teatro Verdi

Reggio Emilia

Teatro Municipale Valli

Werther Massenet

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Private

Approved

The Werther by Massenet is presented in wide co-production between Opera Lombardy and the theaters of Modena, Reggio Emilia, Ferrara and Pisa. Inspired by Goethe's novel The Sorrows of Young Werther , it tells the tragic love affair between the protagonist and Charlotte. Due to an oath made to her mother on her deathbed, the young woman decides to give up Werther in favor of Albert. Despair will lead the protagonist to suicide, not before seeing his beloved one last time. Romantic lyric drama, therefore, that the director Stefano Vizioli reads with a minimalist but precise direction: "With the set designer Emanuele Sinisi we imagined a large white sheet crumpled up by a nervous hand - he explains - a sheet that sometimes contains words that are composed and broken down, stained by an ink that drains, becomes tear or blood, a scenographic attempt to relate to the epistolary style of the source original German ".

Massenet "overturns what by definition is opera writing", explains the conductor Francesco Pasqualetti, who directs the Italian Opera Philharmonic Bruno Bartoletti: "It is as if the orchestra said or sang what with the voice it is no longer allowed to say. What cannot be said verbally.
It is a melody that comes from inside, from below, from a hidden place like an orchestra pit, hidden like in the soul ». And it is precisely the orchestra that reminds us how young Werther's final destination is not heaven, but the damnation of hell.

English

Werther by Massenet, From (2021/2022), Directed by Stefano Vizioli,, Conductor Francesco Pasqualetti, Teatro Verdi, Pisa, Italy

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