Name: Werther
Start: 2018-05-10T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2018-05-29T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Opernhaus

Organization

Chanteur

Ténor

Piotr Beczała

Werther

Mezzo-soprano

Anaïk Morel

Charlotte

Soprano

Mélissa Petit

Sophie

Baryton

Andrei Bondarenko

Albert

Basse

Cheyne Davidson

Le Bailli

Martin Zysset

Schmidt

Yuriy Tsiple

Johann

Stanislav Vorobyov

Bruhllman

Soyoung Lee

Käthchen

Direction d'orchestre

Lorenzo Viotti

Mise en scène

Tatjana Gürbaca

Décors

Klaus Grünberg

Costumes

Silke Willrett

Lumières

Direction de choeur

Ernst Raffelsberger

Dramaturgie

Claus Spahn

Juan Diego Flórez

Anna Stephany

Audun Iversen

Opernhaus Zürich

italien

Zurich

Suisse

Opernhaus

DIRECTOR
Jules MassenetTatjana GürbacaKlaus Grünberg
STARRING
Opera ZurichPhilharmonia ZürichJuan Diego FlórezAnna StéphanyMélissa PetitAudun IversenCheyne DavidsonMartin Zysset
Forbidden love, wrongdoings and anguish: the Opernhaus Zürich ventures into late 19th-century French romanticism with “Werther“ by French composer Jules Massenet. A loose adaptation of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s epistolary novel “The Sorrows of Young Werther”, the opera is conducted by Germany’s Cornelius Meister. It tells the story of the impossible union of poet Werther to Charlotte, a woman of duty already promised to a wealthy businessman. Goethe’s drama is echoed in Massenet’s score by emotionally wide-ranging vocal parts written on a grand scale.

Every detail of Massenet’s chef d’œuvre—a sort of Eugene Onegin “à la française”—is perfectly in place in Tatjana Gürbaca’s 2018 Werther: its naiveté (Act 1’s scenes of childhood), humor (Charlotte’s making fun of the elderly ladies she visits in Act 2), romanticism (settings of moonlight and stormy nights), and intense melancholy (Charlotte’s profound despair at Werther’s tomb). 

Taking cues from Massenet’s nuanced score, Gürbaca sets the opera’s action in a parlor resembling the interior of a small wooden box: a real-life cabinet of curiosities, with the bare minimum of props (a clock, a cupboard, shelves, a trunk) leaving the central area of the stage empty to be occasionally traversed by a moonbeam, the arriving light of dawn, or falling snowflakes… The space is filled by Juan Diego Flórez’s Werther, whose sunny voice and magnetic presence complement Anna Stéphany’s blossoming Charlotte, maturing from a timid girl into a woman of staggering humanity.

Werther Massenet

Public

allemand

anglais

Valide

Accordionist

Instrument

Archlutenist

Baroque Flutist

Baroque Oboist

Baroque Trumpetist

Bassist

Bassoonist

Cellist

Clarinetist

Contrabassist

Cornettist

Flutist

Guitarist

Harper

Harpsichordist

Hornist

Lutenist

Mandoline Player

Musette de cour Player

Oboist

Organist

Percussionist

Pianist

Recorder Player

Saxophonist

Tenor Violinist

Timpani

Trombonist

Trumpeter

Tuba Player

Vibraphonist

Viola Pomposa Player

Viola da Gambist

Viola d’amore Player

Violinist

Violino Piccolo Player

Violist

Acteur

Autre

Choeur

Chorus Director

Chorégraphie

Coach vocal

Coiffure

Compositeur

Danse

Diffusion

En charge de la production

Extra

Illustrator

Livret

Maquillage

Orchestra Operations

Orchestre

Photographer

Poet

Prof

Répétiteur

Stage Manager

Traduction

Video

Wig & Makeup Designer

Writer

Writing and performance

Contre-ténor

Baryton-basse

Contralto

Alto

Continuo

Rôle muet

Rôle parlant

Voix d'enfant

Werther by Massenet, jeu. 10 mai 2018, Du (2018/2018), Dirigé par Tatjana Gürbaca,, Chef d'orchestre Lorenzo Viotti, Opernhaus, Zurich, Suisse

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