Name: Werther
Start: 2004-01-02T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2004-01-22T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Metropolitan Opera House

Organization

Singer

Soprano

Lyubov Petrova

Sophie

Mezzo-soprano

Vesselina Kasarova

Charlotte

Tenor

Roberto Alagna

Werther

Baritone

John Hancock

Albert

Christopher Schaldenbrand

Bass

Thomas Hammons

The bailiff

Paul Plishka

Ronald Naldi

Schmidt

LeRoy Lehr

Johann

Conductor

Jacques Lacombe

The Metropolitan Opera

Others

Metropolitan Opera Choir

Orchestra

Metropolitan Opera Orchestra

French

New York City

United States

Metropolitan Opera House

Roberto Alagna brings passion and ardor to the romantic title hero of Massenet’s opera, adapted from Goethe’s landmark epistolary novel. Vesselina Kasarova is Charlotte, the young woman who captures his imagination—and returns his feelings, but is bound to marry another man. Christopher Schaldenbrand as Albert and Lyubov Petrova as Sophie co-star, and Jacques Lacombe conducts.

Production booklet

Further reading