Name: Werther
Start: 2021-10-23T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2022-04-16T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Theater am Bismarckplatz

Organization

Stage director

Nurkan Erpulat

Conductor

Tom Woods

Costume designer

Katrin Nottrodt

Set designer

Choreographer

Modjgan Hashemian

Dramaturge

Christina Schmidt

Chorus master

Matthias Schlier

Tenor

Amar Muchhala

Werther

Deniz Yilmaz

Mezzo-soprano

Vera Semieniuk

Charlotte

Anna Werle

Soprano

Anna Pisareva

Sophie

Eva Zalenga

Baritone

Seymur Karimov

Albert

Frederic Mörth

Bass

Daniel Ochoa

The bailiff

Jason Lee

Schmidt

Young Kwon

Johann

Lighting designer

Martin Stevens

Theater Regensburg

Orchestra

Regensburg Philharmonic Orchestra

French

Regensburg

Germany

Theater am Bismarckplatz

Werther Massenet

Public

German

Approved

Werther and Charlotte fall madly in love with each other. But Charlotte marries Albert, having promised her dying mother. She absolutely wants to keep this oath. Werther initially shows understanding and even results in Charlotte's desire to distance himself from him. It quickly becomes clear, however, that he doesn't want to live without Charlotte.

With his epistolary novel DIE LEIDEN DES JUNGEN WERTHERS, Goethe created a masterpiece of sensitivity that served Jules Massenet in 1884 as the basis for an opera that looks far beyond the stereotypes of Romanticism. It's about more than the often-told story of two people who only find each other at the hour of death.

Massenet's drama asks questions about love, freedom and personal happiness that are valid regardless of the fashion and taste of an era: How free are you in your decisions and how much is determined by the actions and feelings of people who are close to you? Can you deny your own feelings and still be happy? In deeply lyrical passages and highly dramatic outbursts, Massenet's opera reflects the turmoil of the characters who are caught in their longings, fears and, last but not least, expectations of themselves.

English

Werther by Massenet, Wed 08 Dec 2021, From (2021/2022), Directed by Nurkan Erpulat,, Conductor Tom Woods, Theater am Bismarckplatz, Regensburg, Germany

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