© Stan Hema Werther (concert performance): Deutsche Oper Berlin
Berlin, Deutsche Oper Berlin — Main stage
About the Event
It is one of the astonishing facts of music history that the great operas based on Goethe were almost all written in France. Alongside Gounod's and Berlioz's Faust settings and Ambroise Thomas's MIGNON, Jules Massenet's WERTHER is the most prominent example in this series. Premiered in Vienna in 1892, the work is also one of Massenet's most successful operas and, in its expressive immediacy, a pinnacle of the “drame lyrique”.
At the Deutsche Oper Berlin, concert performances of WERTHER have often offered the opportunity to experience the great tenors of their time in the role of the suicidal poet. After Alfredo Kraus in 1998 and Vittorio Grigolo in 2014, this time it is the turn of the American Jonathan Tetelman, who has already introduced himself to Berlin audiences as Luigi in Puccini's IL TRITTICO and as Paolo il bello in Zandonai's FRANCESCA DA RIMINI. At his side, Aigul Akhmetshina, one of the most exciting female singer discoveries of recent years, sings the role of Charlotte.
Cast / Production
Musical direction — Enrique Mazzola
Werther — Jonathan Tetelman
Charlotte — Aigul Akhmetshina
Albert — Dean Murphy
Sophie — Lilit Davtyan
The bailiff — Michael Bakhtadze
Schmidt — Chance Jonas‐O'Toole
John — Gerard Farreras
Brühlmann — N. N.
Little Käthchen — Alexandra Oomens
Orchestra — Orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Berlin
Choirs — Children's Choir of the Deutsche Oper Berlin
Address
Deutsche Oper Berlin, Bismarckstraße 35 , Berlin, Germany — Google Maps
