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

Organization

Singer

Tenor

Piotr Beczała

Werther

Mezzo-soprano

Anaïk Morel

Charlotte

Soprano

Mélissa Petit

Sophie

Baritone

Andrei Bondarenko

Albert

Bass

Cheyne Davidson

The bailiff

Martin Zysset

Schmidt

Yuriy Tsiple

Johann

Stanislav Vorobyov

Bruhlmann

Soyoung Lee

Kathchen

Conductor

Lorenzo Viotti

Stage director

Tatjana Gürbaca

Set designer

Klaus Grünberg

Costume designer

Silke Willrett

Lighting designer

Chorus master

Ernst Raffelsberger

Dramaturge

Claus Spahn

Juan Diego Flórez

Anna Stephany

Audun Iversen

Opernhaus Zürich

Iodáilis

Zurich

Switzerland

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

Gearmáinis

Béarla

Approved

Accordionist

Instrumentalist

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 gamba

Viola d’amore Player

Violinist

Violino Piccolo Player

Violist

Actor

Broadcasting

Choir

Choreographer

Chorus Director

Composer

Dancer

Executive producer

Extra

Hairstylist

Illustrator

Librettist

Makeup artist

Orchestra

Orchestra Operations

Other

Photographer

Poet

Repetiteur

Sound designer

Stage Manager

Teacher

Translator

Video designer

Vocal coach

Wig & Makeup Designer

Writer

Writing and performance

Bass-baritone

Countertenor

Contralto

Alto

Child vocalist

Continuo

Silent

Spoken

Werther by Massenet, Déa 10 Beal 2018, Ó (2018/2018), Faoi stiúir Tatjana Gürbaca,, Seoltóir Lorenzo Viotti, Opernhaus, Zurich, Switzerland

Creidmheasanna feidhmíochta (Foireann & Criú )

Caitheadh

Criú

Clár, Eolas & Achoimre

Grianghraif

Tuilleadh léitheoireachta

Dátaí & Ionaid Feidhmíochta

Ionaid