Watch Massenet, Werther - Jonas Kaufmann, Michel Plasson - Opera national de Paris 2010
- G
- 2010
- 2 hr 42 min
In Massenet's masterpiece, based on Goethe's Sorrows of the Young Werther, tears never cease to flow from the very moment the moonlight idyll is revealed and destroyed. "My whole being cries at it" says Werther. We are a long way from opera's usual tears, be they furtive or violent. These tears flow slowly and inexorably, one by one. Patient tears as Charlotte puts it.