Idéale audience
Werther
In Massenet's masterpiece, tears never cease to flow from the very moment the moonlight idyll is revealed and destroyed. "My whole being cries at it" says Werther. Far away from opera's usual tears, furtive or violent, those flow slowly and inexorably.
In four acts, they’ll have done their work. Charlotte cannot hold them back as she rereads Werther's letters, her tears are the only part of her that he dares ask of her.
They’ll flow and flow, and finally at the sight of Werther' blood-soaked body.
Yet he refuses these last tears : for now he is happy and free.
Director :
Benoit Jacquot
Louise Narboni
Producer :
Co-production :
Idéale Audience, Opéra national de Paris, Arte France
With the participation of : France Musique
Produced by :
Françoise Gazio and Pierre-Olivier Bardet
Running time :
162’
Format :
HDCAM
Year of production :
2010
Distributor(s) / Sales Agent(s) :
EuroArts Music International
http://www.euroarts.com
DVD : DECCA
Composer(s) :
Jules Massenet
Work(s) :
Werther
Poems by Edouard Blau, Paul Millet, Georges Hartmann
from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Cast :
Jonas Kaufmann (Werther)
Sophie Koch (Charlotte)
Ludovic Tézier (Albert)
Anne-Catherine Gillet (Sophie)
Alain Vernhes Le Bailli,
Andreas Jaggi (Jean Schmidt)
Christian Tréguier (Johann)
Michel Plasson, Artistic director
Paris National Opera orchestra
Maîtrise des Hauts-de-Seine /
Paris National Opéra Children Choir
Benoit Jacquot, Stage Director
Date and shoot location :
Paris National Opera, Bastille, 2010
Festivals / Awards :
Diapason d'Or - December 2010
Diapason d’Or, Year 2011
Choc Classica 2010
Photo credits :
© Alain Picard