Werther

Charlotte only married Albert out of duty but continues to love Werther without admitting it to herself and even less to him. The young man despairs at seeing his advances rejected and will not taste the love that the young woman comes to confess too late.

Adapted from Goethe’s novel, Jules Massenet’s opera Werther is a jewel of French lyric repertoire. Opéra Orchestre National Montpellier Occitanie shares the sober and elegant staging by Bruno Ravella – his Rosenkavalier was recently enjoyed on OperaVision – and invites the famous Canadian contralto Marie-Nicole Lemieux to sing Charlotte for the first time, alongside a young and almost exclusively French-speaking cast conducted by Jean-Marie Zietouni.

Recorded on 20 May 2021.

Sung in French. Subtitles are available in English and French with the option of auto-translation into over 100 other languages.

Available from
24.12.2021 at 19h00 CET

Available until
24.06.2022 at 12h00 CET

Werther	Mario Chang
Charlotte	Marie-Nicole Lemieux
Albert	Jérôme Boutillier
Le Bailli	Julien Véronèse
Sophie	Pauline Texier
Schmidt	Yoann Le Lan
Johann	Matthias Jacquot
Kätchen	Emma de La Selle
Brühlmann	Léo Thiéry
Maid	Lisa Martin
Children	Gabriel Bertrand, Marina Gallant, Charlotte Gleize, Naomi Renoir, Brunelle Sauvegrain, Nina Sauvegrain
Chorus	Chœur Dames Opéra national Montpellier Occitanie
Orchestra	Orchestre national Montpellier Occitanie

Music	Jules Massenet
Text	Édouard Blau, Paul Milliet, Georges Hartmann
Conductor	Jean-Marie Zeitouni
Director	José Darío Innella, original staging by Bruno Ravella
Set Designer	Leslie Travers
Costume Designer	Leslie Travers
Lighting Designer	Linus Fellbom
Stage director assistant	Diane Clément
Production manager	Xavier Bouchon
Stage managers	Mireille Jouve, Anaïs Pélaquier
Chorus manager	Maya Lehec