Boston Lyric Opera (BLO) unleashes Jules Massenet's melodic, romantic French opera Werther from its late 18th Century German source material, bringing it to an early-20th-Century arrondissement ...

Listen to our quick overview of this week's opera broadcast of Jules Massenet's Werther, airing Saturday at noon. This week, Classical 91.7’s program director St.John Flynn, and opera expert, Eric ...

Massenet's "Werther," which returned to the War Memorial Opera House on Wednesday night for the first time in 25 years, is not so much tragic as gloom laden, a fraught tale of missed connections and ...

This is full-blown, classic opera downsized for the road. Whatever else gets scaled back for touring, such as the orchestra and stage sets, the downsizing can’t include emotional impact. In this way, ...

The Boston Public Library’s Abbey Room filled with song Thursday night as cast members from Boston Lyric Opera’s upcoming production of “Werther” performed short excerpts from the opera for a packed ...

What was up with all those chairs? We’ll get to that. The good news was the Boston Lyric Opera’s staging of Jules Massenet’s “Werther,” which opened Friday evening at the Shubert Theatre, featuring ...

Massenet fans have been unusually well-provided for this season, beginning in September with Odyssey Opera’s local premiere of the composer’s grand opera “Le Cid.” And on Friday, Boston Lyric Opera ...

One of the saddest regressions in Baltimore’s cultural life has been on the operatic front, with the gradual fading away of professional, fully staged productions. The last company to attempt them, ...

Tenor Jonas Kaufmann stars as the tortured poet in the Met’s new production of Jules Massenet’s Werther on Great Performances at the Met Sunday, July 20 at 12 pm on PBS. (In New York, THIRTEEN airs ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Who said that Puccini and Tchaikovsky gave us the height of operatic passion? Try the later stages of this revival of ...

The plot is simple and gloomy: Werther falls in love with Charlotte who returns his passion but unfortunately has promised her mother that she will marry Albert. When the marriage takes place, Werther ...